How can restaurants have fresh food every week all year long? Where does it come from?

Question

How is fresh food not in season locally always available? How sit is processed and sent off across the world so quickly and with such consistency?

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Answer 1

Some of it is grown year round in greenhouses or in the tropics and then shipped to other locations.

Other crops are only harvested once a year and then stored in nitrogen atmosphere so they don’t ripen until after delivered.

A lot of “fresh” food is actually really old. Apples, potatoes, carrots can all be up to a year old. Lettuce, tomatoes, bananas will be less than 1 month old.