– What makes some fruit “freezable” and others not? Here (in America, anyway) you can buy frozen mango and peaches and berries, but not oranges or apples or pears.

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– What makes some fruit “freezable” and others not? Here (in America, anyway) you can buy frozen mango and peaches and berries, but not oranges or apples or pears.

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Answer 1

I am pretty sure that it’s mainly because of price/volume and availability reasons.

Mango and berries are expensive, mango are imports and berries very expensive.
Peaches are seasonally available but less expensive.
Orange apple and pear are available all year round at about the same price via local production, import, long term conservation and not that much expensive.

I am French and i don’t remember seeing frozen peaches, only berries and mango, but i think the same logic applies to our supermarkets.

AS a note, commercial trades and pricing can lead to odd things. Last time i looked it up (20 years ago). France was basically not exporting the cheapest wine.
Because if you account transport and volume/price. It’s more interesting to export the more expensive wine. Ie cheap wine bottle cost 3€ + 3€ transport, but expensive wine cost 15€+3€ transport and you get a better margin on it.
I think the same kind of logic applies to frozen goods.
It was strange to realise we were keeping the lowest quality stuff for ourselves, even if we had the highest production and consumption of wine.