Blueberries?!
Answers: Why are fresh blueberries always paler and sickly looking compared to frozen blueberries? Are the frozen ones more healthy?
From what I remember going blueberry picking, they all had some whitish, fine powdery coating on them. I'm not sure exactly what this was - pesticide, herbicide, or some natural coating...but for ANY fruit or vegetable, the less time there is from picking it to eating it, the better, as the vitamins degrade as time goes on. Some fruits are picked and then very quickly, flash frozen. That is better, and conventional freezing also slows the degradation process down, but still, the fresher the better.
Fresh blueberries have a whitish natural waxy coating on them that make them look a bit lighter than frozen.
Recent studies have shown that unlike some foods that lose some of their nutrients when frozen, frozen blueberries are just as nutritious as fresh.
Blueberries really good for you because they are tiny antioxidant powerhouses. Anthocyanins, the blue pigments from the blueberry skin, are powerful antioxidants with potential cancer preventing power. In a recent study comparing 40 fruits and vegetables, blueberries had the highest antioxidant capacity, mostly due to the anthocyanin. So fresh or frozen you can't go wrong.
Blueberries fresh have a light blue powery coating to them
Frozen ones have lost this either through washing or the freezing process.
When used in cooking, the only reason to use frozen as opposed to fresh is the time of year and/or the climate you live. There really is no difference in the flavor. Especially when you are putting them in muffins or something of that nature. I have put our restaurants frozen blueberries in my cereal before with great results!
The frozen ones have been injected with blue color #2 by little elves. They don't work for just Santa ya know!
they freeze the blueberries when they are at their peak, when they are very ripe. They do this so you can enjoy ripe blueberries when you defrost them. The fresh blueberries always look more paler and not ripe because they are not ripe. They dont pick the fresh blueberries when they're ripe because by the time you get them in the supermarket and home they will be moldy and go bad. So they pick the blueberries early. Remember fresh fruit cant sit that long. Even when I buy bananas, in like a matter of days, they get brown and smushy.