Ask HN: To eat fruit picked too early and too far or not to eat fruit?

[rednosehacker]

To eat fruit picked too early on the other side of the world or not to eat fruit?

Too early : not enough nutrients Too far : environmental harm

[moksly]

I’m European and our fruit buying may be different, but here it’s actually relatively easy to buy fruit.

Rank1: local fruit that is in season.

Rank2: European fruit that’s in season.

Rank3: local storage fruit.

Rank4: European storage fruit.

Rank5: Imported fruit, the longer it travels the worse it is.

Rank6: bananas.

[GlitchPlease]

What's 'storage fruit'? dried fruit? canned fruit?

[detaro]

I'm guessing they might mean fruits that can or need to be stored after harvest. E.g. there's various kinds of apples and pears that ripen after harvest - some of them quickly, some of them take months and are good throughout the winter into spring.

[moksly]

Stuff that’s kept in warehouses. It’s not very climate friendly to refrigerate/heat those warehouses. But it does mean that we can all buy “fresh” strawberries in the middle of winter.

[rednosehacker]

Cool ranking ! Sorry for bananas ^^