– 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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I make a fruit smoothie for breakfast most days and frozen apples, pears, citrus, bananas, and berries are frequent ingredients. Bc I’m not worried about the texture, since it will be ground up, pretty much all fruits are fair game as long as they were cleaned and pitted prior to freezing.

I live on a FL farm and we run a food share program. Sometimes we get so much food we can’t give it away fast enough. So we freeze a lot. And when we run out of freezer space, we feed surplus to our cattle, pigs, and chickens.

As an example, there’s a nice lady who stocks regional gas stations with bananas, apples, and oranges. Anything she takes back as over ripe comes to us. What we can’t give away for human use, we use for animals.

Our neighbor is a wild animal rescue and they use fruit for their bats, lemurs, and monkeys. Our cattle and pigs get 5lbs of bananas (with peals) a day and they don’t care if the fruit is black and mushy.