Need a fruit expert.

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My children need a lot of fruit in the lunchboxes. If i were to chop up lots of fruit in the eveing, store it in the fridge over night...would is be edible for the children to eat come lunchtime??

Is their certain fruits that will not last??

They love, peaches, nectarines, strawberries, raspberries, melon, apple, banana, kiwi and grapes the most.

Hmm, not sure. It may go brown. At the moment I am loving freezing my fruit. (Though I actually eat it frozen, lol) Especially pineapple. You could try cutting it all up and freezing it into portions (in little food bags), taking it out in the morning and it should still be nice when they go to eat it. You could do loads at a time.

ohhh that sounds like a plan

thank-you!

My experience is that it depends on the fruit.

Strawbs - Yes, if not overripe not as good though.
Kiwi Fruit - Yes
Pineapple - Yes
Orange - Yes
Banana - No!
Mango - Yes
Melon - Yes
Grapes - yes
Nectarines/Peaches - Yes if not overripe
apple - Not sure but could try tiny bit of lemon juice to coat the slices
Pear - No, but will stay fine if you do the above in the morning.

If you chop it up into a fruit salad and just squeeze lemon and orange juice over it, it is absolutely fine left overnight- it improves, in fact! Especially if there are peaches and things in it. May not have many vitamins left though...