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The canned mushroom thread got me thinking about this. Canned salmon is a food that tastes nothing like fresh. Grapefruit juice is another. The first time I had fresh squeezed grapefruit juice I thought I had gotten the wrong juice. Something starts happening to grapefruit juice as soon as squeezed that completely changes the taste within 24 hours. If you've never tasted fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice you don't know what grapefruit juice tastes like.
Any other foods like this, not just better but completely different when fresh?
Not just grapefruit, but all citrus juice starts to deteriorate in taste shortly after it's squeezed. Don't even get me started on reconstituted juices like frozen orange juice concentrate or, God forbid, those plastic lemons.
Most anything canned. But that said, I think canned products have their place. Just because they taste different than fresh doesn't make them undesirable necessarily. Just different applications.
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I will always take frozen over canned, but fresh is best. I would not go anywhere near canned green beans, peas, or asparagus, for example, and no offense to Popeye, but canned spinach is horrible. I can pick corn, blanch it, dry off and freeze right away, and when I eat it the taste is better than the "fresh" at the supermarket that has spent a day or two on a truck and in the back warehouse.
Similarly, a soft yolk is a delicious, unctuous, heavenly experience. A yolk cooked through is....eh. Not for me.
Steak is another - not only is it ghastly when "well done" (what an oxymoron), but a previously frozen steak doesn't even compare to one that was never frozen, even if prepared correctly.
It's funny, I don't like fresh salmon or tuna, but enjoy them when canned.
I like mushrooms raw, sauteed, canned, you name it. But they do all taste different.
Frozen food is said to have more nutrients than the fresh you get at the grocery store, because it is usually frozen within hours of picking, instead of stored at room temp for a few days on the way to the store. Fresh-picked homegrown is still the best!
It's funny, I don't like fresh salmon or tuna, but enjoy them when canned.
I'm the exact opposite. LOL! I can't even stand the smell of canned tuna. But a seared tuna steak? YESSSS please!
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