Can fresh dates be cryopreserved?

Jujube is a kind of jujube, the taste is sweet, there are more ways to eat, jujube can be fresh, washed and eaten directly, or it can be dried in the sun, and it can also be eaten directly after drying. However, fresh dates are not easy to keep. So can fresh dates be cryopreserved?

Can fresh dates be cryopreserved?

Fresh dates can be frozen. Frozen dates can be used to make fruit salad or porridge, not only crisp and fresh and sweet, but also fresh dates to supplement vitamins even after the use of dates.

How to freeze fresh jujube

1, fresh jujube preservation should first choose the date of picking fresh jujube, when the red fruit of the jujube reaches more than 25% coloring, the red jujube at this stage is the most resistant to storage.

2. The fresh dates picked should be selected, and the bad dates with bruises and black spots on the surface should be selected out, so as to prevent the bad dates with mold from infecting other dates during storage.

3. Fresh dates are generally kept in cold storage. Before cold storage, the pre-stored fresh dates should be pre-cooled at a temperature of 5-8 ℃ for a day or two. Soak the fresh jujube in a solution of 2% calcium chloride for 30 minutes before precooling.

4. After precooling, the fresh jujube should be stored in a cold storage with a temperature of 0 ℃ ~ 1 ℃ and a relative temperature of 90% to 95%.

How to choose fresh dates

1. The high-quality winter jujube peel is purplish red or crimson, with relatively uniform particle size, few wrinkles, thin skin, thick and fine meat. If you see more wrinkles on fresh dates, it may be stale or of poor quality. Don't buy this one.

2. Look at the jujube pedicel if there are red or crimson circles at the end of the fresh jujube, indicating that it has been exposed to sufficient sunlight, the quality is definitely better, and the color of the pedicle tip is natural color and no obvious red-green boundary indicates that it is a natural mature fresh jujube, without artificial ripening, this kind of fresh jujube can of course be purchased.