The Field Guideby Moss & MarrowThe Field Guideby Moss & Marrow
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In the Netherlands, strawberries are in season May to September, at their best in June. After the harvest, Dutch stores carry them until October. November is outside the Dutch season for strawberries.
Open-field Dutch strawberries ripen from late May to September, with June the peak month. Glasshouse and tunnel strawberries extend the Dutch season from April into October, which is why they are sold for most of the year.
A June field strawberry is red to the stem and smells of strawberry; the firm, pale-shouldered berries of early spring are from glass. Many growers open their fields for picking in June and July.
Vitamin C, as much per gram as oranges, plus folate, manganese and anthocyanins. Around 91 percent water with potassium, so strawberries hydrate on a hot day.
To get the most: Eat them raw and within a day; vitamin C and anthocyanins both fall with storage and heat. Hull after washing so water does not soak in.
On our nutrient density chart, a normal serving of strawberries (150 g) gives more than a day's vitamin C and about a tenth of a day's folate, counting what your body absorbs. That puts them 7th of the 33 fruits we scored.
Content per NEVO, the Dutch food composition database. This describes what the food contains, not what it does for you.
Keep the hull on until after washing. Eat the same day, or hull and freeze on a tray for jam later.
34 producers in The Field Guide sell strawberries, according to their own website or shop list, each checked against our inclusion criteria and listed by province. Another 152 growers passed our bar for this food group; we have not yet recorded what each of them grows, so ask them or search the map.
Open on the map →39 farms in the guide open their fields for picking. Opening days follow the ripening, so check the farm's own page or social media the week you want to go.
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