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The bottom strawberry has about negative one day shelf life. Freeze or use asap. I get a local variety each year from a stand and they turn fast and are only available for short periods of time in the summer.
The top strawberry is probably already a few days old and possibly been frozen and thawed more than once in shipment. These are often grown year round so: off season availability.
Yeah the bottom one looks much more delicious but it's a "buy it and eat it as you walk away from the stand" kind of thing.
Let's not pretend strawberries aren't eaten right away once bought, just give me enough time to get the ice cream and the whipped cream
We have strawberries in our garden, and this is pretty much the case. You either eat/use it when it's ripe or freeze it.
Different cultivars of strawberries? Different growing methods? Theres lots of reasons for the difference.
Shot in the dark, but I bet the top one has a shorter growing cycle per pound.
It's likely the reverse. The bottom one will have a shorter growing cycle.
The top one is selected for firmness and shipping. Delayed ripening is usually linked to these traits in climacteric fruits.
The bottom one is selected for internal color and yield. They can't be shipped very far though.
Thats entirely possible too, less light, less nutrients, less care, I prefer whiter strawberries since they are sweeter than tart myself. But it could just as easily be nurture vs yield as well.
In this instance it's likely a different variety. I would guess it's a processing variety versus a shipping variety.
Most strawberries for long distance shipping are bred for a lower degree of softening during the ripening process. This is done by selective breeding for a lower expression of expansin activity. This allows for them to have a shelf life of 3 weeks.
Processing varities (preserves, freezing, etc) have a very sort shelf life. Often only 3-4 days. They are selected for the deep red color throughout the fruit as well as yield. This deep red color looks better in the finished products.
I grew up on a farm and strawberries were one of the big crops. You might be right but I think the biggest thing is that they are simply picked green. Not 100% green, but as soon as they show a little red, they are picked. They last MUCH longer this way, but at the cost of flavor. There are different varieties, but those two berries look the same (most of the ones you see are the jewel variety)
Is the Kroger one the one on the left or right?
The difference is up and down, not left and right
Don't dead open inside
I did the same thing. "The strawberries look the same to me" followed by "Right...idiot...top and bottom."
Ah yes, the krogers is far more sweet, looking /s
I'm assuming that krogers is a chain shop and is the fully res one right?
Which is which? And what's Kroger?
Kroger is the largest supermarket chain in the US.