Do not store tomatoes too close to other fruits and vegetables

Proper storage: Tomatoes ripen fruits and vegetables faster
Like many other fruits, tomatoes ripen after harvesting. They do not like cold either. Therefore, storage is not easy. If some tips are followed, tomatoes can be kept long.

Store tomatoes properly. Image: magdal3na - fotolia

Tomatoes release natural ripening gas
Be it salad, a soup or a delicious sauce: tomatoes can be found in almost every German kitchen. Many Germans also grow them in the garden themselves. It does not matter if you harvest the fruits yourself or buy them in the supermarket: "The tomatoes should be stored away from other fruits and vegetables". They mature after all, "even if they are no longer attached to the shrub and release the natural ripening gas ethylene, which, for example, makes cucumbers soften very quickly". The consumer information service "aid" pointed this out on its portal "was-wir-essen.de".

Dark and airy storage
You can also use this effect, for example, by placing tomatoes next to hard kiwis, which then mature faster. A dark and airy storage of tomatoes is ideal. The storage temperature should be between 12 and 16 degrees. In vine tomatoes, it can also be 15 to 18 degrees. Also for the preparation of the "aid" had recently given valuable tips. So you should not peel tomatoes, as they carry the best in the shell. As with many fruits and vegetables, it contains important phytochemicals. (Ad)