We consulted the Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen experts to find out whether this hack is worth the effort. All you have to do is drop your “kind of sad” bruisedstrawberries into a bowl... Look for any bruises or mould. Set the bruisedstrawberries aside." Bruised or moulding fruit will encourage other foods to go off and start getting mouldy sooner. Take your sorta mushy or bruisedstrawberries and soak them in an ice water bath for about 20 minutes and they plump back up and turn bright red again. That said, this hack is for strawberries that may have become bruised or slightly soft. The first step is to make sure you don’t buy any pack that has crushed strawberries in it. The next step would be to immediately discard any soft, overripe, or bruisedstrawberries once you... At least 15% of each strawberry should show bruising before scientists put it in that classification. Such strawberries should be discarded, Zhou said. This article appears on , Volume 12, Issue 3 of the Vegetable and Fruit News. Dark spots on strawberry leaves often mistaken for the start of foliar diseases. White chocolate drizzle on strawberries. Hack for dipping strawberries in chocolate. Follow the chocolate sponge recipe below. It works for me always and the end result is a moist cake. In a food prep hack, photos by Facebook user Brittany King show an ice bath restoring mushy, bruisedstrawberries. Chocolate covered strawberryhack‼Adding one last coat to the bottom of your strawberries will decrease the amount of “bleeding” from your strawberries.