Adding convenience to vegetables is a trend in the supermarket. There is a wide range of cut, crops and vegetables. With potatoes, this trend is not very much continuing Consumers mainly buy unpeeled potatoes. According to Marjan Skotnicki-Hoogland, managing director of CêlaVíta, there are unjustified prejudices about the freshness of peeled potatoes.
“The peeled, washed and precooked potatoes that we sell are just as fresh as table potatoes that you peel yourself. We only offer convenience. We wash and peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes or wedges. Nothing else happens with it. a product without additives. Only the potatoes are shortly pre-cooked for the convenience of the consumer. “
Emeritus professor of food technology Tiny van Boekel argues that there is no good definition and there is also no legal regulation about what may consist of fresh food. “For some people ‘fresh’ means that little time has passed since harvest or preparation. They do not always realize that potatoes, apples and pears often have been in conditioned storage for an extended period of time before these products go to the supermarket. For others it means ‘fresh’ especially that nothing has been added and that it is therefore a pure product. “
