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Evert-Fresh Green Bags
I never thought that Evert-Fresh Green Bags were a legitimate product since their website mentions “AS SEEN ON TV!” and they are advertised through a cheesy infomercial. But that changed recently, when friends sent me home with some of their hand-grown produce in one of these green-colored bags.
According to the Evert-Fresh website, the bags are treated with “natural minerals” to absorb damaging gases like ammonia, ethylene, and carbon dioxide that fruits and vegetables release as they ripen. The site also says that the bags help control moisture. After reusing mine a few times, I can honestly say that it keeps my lettuces and leafy vegetables fresher much longer than grocery store plastic bags. Some of the claims seem a little far-fetched (who would want to eat 30-day-old produce anyways?), but for keeping greens brighter and less wilty, these do a nice job over the course of a week.
Evert-Fresh Green Bags, $9.95
Posted by | Friday, April 18, 2008 at 3:15pm | 6 comments
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If the produce is fresh, crisp and not overly ripe or spoiled in any way....I'd eat 30 day old stuff.
Sounds like these might be worth a try.
Works for me. I've been using them for nearly a year and was surprised, as you were. Although I'm very leery of chemicals this seems to really be a green product.
I love love love these things.
As a single person house I can now buy in bigger quantities from the farmer's markets and it stays fresh and crisp for 3 - 4x longer.
Peppers and snap peas do go over 2 weeks with no discernable difference in texture or taste. Now I can't speak to nutrition, but they do seem as good as new.
And the bags are very reusable.
Strawberries hold up REALLY well in these, too, but you really have to make sure your produce is dry when you bag it. Peppers did not fare as well, but who knows how long they sat in the supermarket?
I hate washing them, but buying a little wooden bag drying rack from reuseablebags.com certainly helped make it less of a chore.
My comment got posted under jennalynn somehow. Sorry, Jennalynn, the system did it, not me!
Here's the secret of the green bags: put in a paper towel with your produce and change out that paper towel once in a while. In addition, you can pull all the produce out and flip the bag inside out and put the produce back in to get rid of moisture. I've been using the green bags for many years and using the above two methods to control moisture. It's worked like a charm every time. Things only go 'bad' inside the bags if there is moisture or the bag is left open.