Strawberries - add sugar or not?

[Silverbirchleaf]

Growing up, my dm would always add sugar to strawberries to sweeten them. I realise that I no longer do that, as varieties sold now are alot sweeter. I wasn’t actually That fond of strawberries in the past, but quite like them now.

Does anyone routinely add sugar nowadays?

I just made some strawberry ice cream and you add sugar and lemon to bring out the juice. But I wouldn’t do that if I was eating them straight if you know what I mean

Once they're washed and prepped, try a tiny sprinkle of Malibu over the top 😍

I think sugar helps to preserve them so they last longer. We always had sugar on them as children.

I don't add sugar now but I find supermarket strawberries go off very quickly.

I made a friend at university who was several social classes above me, and not only did her family deny me a cup of tea with my meal ('surely you would rather have that after' they gasped) but they also put black pepper on their strawberries!! I knew then that I was not destined for the high-life.

Nope, a twist of black pepper and a drizzle of maple syrup.

My Mil does..

Nope, never use sugar in sauces with tomatoes

I'm 71 and agree there was more sugar around when I was a child - on cereal, in tea, on fruit plus biscuits etc. I deliberately cut back in my teens

16 calories in a teaspoonful of sugar. As I mentioned above I add less than a teaspoonful to a punnet of strawberries. It's not like the calories in some of the huge syrupy sweet milky coffees people have every day, often with a muffin.

I only use a small amount but it makes a big difference to taste

It makes it taste less savoury and brings out the sweetness of the tomatoes. That's what I don't like

Some 35 years ago, travelling around New Zealand, I was introduced to the concept of eating strawberries with black pepper. It sounds as though that combination shouldn't work but it's divine.

My New Zealander friends were astonished to learn that in the UK we ate strawberries with sugar. Equally, they regarded a cheese-and-tomato sandwich as an exotic combination, and were greatly amused that I considered their bog-standard cheese-and-pineapple sandwiches to be so extraordinary.

My mum in her early 70s does, and always has done. I've never done it. Strawberries are sweet enough IMO.

Absolutely not

Not now but I grew up with family who did this.
I am in my 60s. As children we had a lot of sugar. Not necessarily in snacks but we had home baked cakes, pies, puddings and everything was covered in sugar. No wonder my teeth were so bad.
I put this down to my parents growing up with rationing.
My in laws were older than my parents and MIL, who was lovely, would bake a fruit pie with sweetened fruit and a coating of sugar on top, then she would sprinkle extra sugar on top as she served it.

My grandmother sprinkled them with icing sugar. It was delicious but too sweet for me now, I just have them on their own.

Absolutely not!!!

My DM always put sugar on strawberries and they were inedible. A bit of balsamic vinegar is quite nice.

A group of went for afternoon at a friend's once and she served up strawberries and tipped almost half a bag of sugar over them. I had to say I couldn't possibly eat anything more!

No way.

Depends on the strawberries. English grown ones in late June onwards, probably not but earlier ones might need some help.
I find Spanish strawberries in April or May to be very disappointing in general, they can be sweet but too hard and lacking that special strawberry fragrance, and hence flavour.

Sometimes I’ll sprinkle a little sugar to
macerate them if I want to put over icecream - probably half a teaspoon onto the cut fruit so not a huge deal

70s kid Strawberries were a rare treat.
Van came round they were sold in cardboard punnets.
The straberry Mannie only came roon in the summer.
Sprinkle of sugar.Ne Scotland.
No sugar used now though.

Just dip them in dark chocolate instead.