Apparently misting veggies like this reduces their life, it's mostly to make the veggies look more saleable rather than having them last longer (IIUC).
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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Really? I've only seen this practice on the American continent and I've always wondered.
These days I get my produce directly to my front door from a farmer. This stuff lasts for at least a week, often much longer. Compared to the produce from supermarkets that seem to rot on the way home already.
Here's an article on the subject, and yes, it seems the misting is just to trick people into thinking "ooooh, fresh!"
They’re dismembered and being sprayed with plant blood, I think it’s a mixed experience at best.
Water isn't "plant blood", it's just water. What you'd equate to plant blood is a mix of sugars, chlorophyll and other such things. Water is a part of the mix, like in your own blood, but mostly just serves as the solution that facilitates the transport of everything else.
Definitely not the preference of every vegetable in the garden. But for the ones that are into it I'm sure it's a peak experience
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This rots the vegetables
At least half those veggies are just the reproductive organ of the plant. So it's kinda weird personified them like that. The rest had their roots chopped off.
Whoa. Are we eating their junk? j/k who eats vegetables amirite
I'm a vegetable and I love being squirted on.
Idk, i think they are already dead. Might be more like a corpse being put in a freezer?
A good number of veggies are actually alive on the store shelf. For instance onions will even start to grow in your fridge if you leave them there for awhile. Scallions will grow if you chuck them in a bit of water. A forgotten bag of potatoes will grow a nightmarish web of roots seeking soil
If you buy carrots that have the tops on, remove them immediately, because the root will keep sending its water to the leaves and lose its turgidity.