Food Tips & Info > Freezing > Fruit and BerriesJanuary 23, 2011

Freezing Fresh Fruit

I have lots of summer fruits and end up having to throw them out. I'd like to make a fruit salad to freeze. Can anyone give me some help please? I don't have any canning equipment.

By Sandra from Newcastle, Australia

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01/25/2011

Greetings, you can also hydrate fruits in the oven or on a sunny day on a screen in the sun, it takes about 2 days and you need to bring them in at night to avoid extra moisture. Be sure to cover the fruit with cheesecloth to protect from bugs. This is not quite the answer you were looking but it does save the fruit, when my kids were at home I would chop and freeze fruits in small portions and we would eat them frozen, still do with my grandaughter. You may also try making fruit leather which holds up very well and can later be reconstituted into drinks (disovled in boiling water). Hope this helps some, wish you were closer I live in a big city not much room for orchards or gardens.

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01/25/2011

I got a food dehydrator at a thrift shop and use that to dehydrate much of the fruit from my trees. I then put them in plastic bags in the refrigerator.

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01/24/2011

Check out this link for freezing assorted fruits and veggies:
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/freeze.html

Many fruits simply turn to mush when frozen and and thawed (even thawed in the refrigerator) and will need to be used in assorted recipes and things like smoothies. Unless they are 'just the right fruits' it's doubtfull they'll freeze well for fresh fruit salads.

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Freezing fruit can be an easy way to enjoy the bounty of your garden and orchard all year round. Compared with other preservation methods, freezing saves time and nutrients, and keeps fruit fresh-tasting and colorful. Contents include:

  • Choose Freezer Containers Carefully
  • Preventing Browning
  • Packing Fruit
  • Try a syrup pack for cherries (sour or sweet).
  • Freezing rhubarb, as easy as "pie".

This article is available in PDF format. Click here to download it.

USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning, available online:
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/publications/publications_usda.html


We have a cherry tree and sometimes buy fruit cheaply, but don't get it eaten as quickly as it ought to be. My next door neighbor gave me a blueberry (a huge one) that she'd frozen.


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