If you love to eat fruit and keep a lot of fruits in your home, then you are definitely supposed to have good fruit bowls in your home. Just having the fruit bowls is not enough; you need to keep it in the best condition. The first thing is to keep the bowls completely fresh. There are various ways in which you can easily and effectively keep the fruits bowls in your home fresh.
Select the right kind of bowl
- You are obviously supposed to buy attractive and beautiful fruit bowls but your first priority should be choosing a functional bowl that will help to keep your fruits fresh. Any kind of bowl can be used to keep the fruits but you need to choose such a bowl that guarantees overall better air circulation. Stainless or plastic bowls make the fruits sweat that enhances deterioration process. This is why you should go for wire mesh or ceramic bowl. Moreover, it is not considered wise to select a large bowl.
- On the other hand, you also need to wash the fruit bowls once in a week for reducing presence of the fruit flies and thus lower risk of the bacteria and molds. If the bowl does not allow good ventilation, then better clean the bowl more than once in a week.
Take care of your fruits
- While filling a bowl with fruits, you should know that the less is better. If you keep more number of fruits in a bowl, there will be less room for air circulation that can ultimately lead to rotting process.
- There are some fruits that decay faster than other fruits. You should remove and then replace the decaying fruits to keep the fruit bowls fresh. Moreover, washing the fruits just before placing them in the bowls more often than not starts decaying method. This is the reason you are only supposed to wash the fruits just before eating.
Keep the fruit bowls in ideal location
You are required to place the fruit bowls in an open and visible location. Never put it in cluttered corner, else you may forget to eat the fruits and it will eventually start rotting. On the other hand, you can keep the fruits in the refrigerator at night rather than keeping it in the room temperature. You are only supposed to keep the fruits at bowls during the snack time. If you keep the fruits uselessly outside, then it won’t be fresh for longer period. In case, it is too hot outside during summer then better keep the fruits in the refrigerator.
Know about the fruits
There are supposed to be different kinds of fruits in your fruit bowls. Some fruits ripe quickly than other fruits. You have to closely monitor the fruits that ripe faster. Fruits like berries comparatively decay faster than fruits like orange. Hence, eat the berries as soon as possible. Do not store it for longer period else it will start rotting. On the other hand, fruits like kiwi, pears, apples and bananas release some kind of gas that speed up the ripening process, therefore keep these fruits separately.