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I got a huge thing of beautiful canned peaches so cheap
In: Economics
Fruit that is canned can be fruit with visible defects that consumers wont buy as fresh.
Ugly, misshapen tomatoes? Mash them up, cook them and can them instead of throwing them away.
Fresh fruit that is over/under sized? Dice them up and can them instead of throwing them away.
I worked in a pineapple cannery. Fresh, whole fruit had to be the perfect color, size and shape with no blemishes. It was picked by hand, loaded by hand into trucks and flown by air around the world.
Fruit that was ripe, but didn’t have the perfection of fresh was sent to the cannery. Color variations were ignored, misshapen fruit didn’t matter as long as it fit into the machines. The fruit was first processed into cylinders. Cylinders were trimmed of blemishes, then cut into rings. Any rings that had blemishes removed and were not perfect were diced, crushed or juiced. The skins were scraped and the flesh was used for crush or juice. The cores were squeezed for juice. All the leftover pulp and cores were sold to farmers as cattle feed.
Finally, the cans were sealed without labels and the labels were only applied when the orders came in and the cans shipped out the door. There were about 100 different labels that were applied to the same fruit from the same fields. The cans could sit for months in our warehouse before they were sold because harvest was only a few months long.
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