— Laurie Wallace

Eat them quickly, don't store them. Lot to unpack here. So when you were cutting up fruit, there was a study done, I wanna say like 2016 that show that when you cut up fruit you don't lose much nutrition at all. Now it depends on how sharp your knife is though, right? If you use a very dull knife, you're gonna lose some vitamin C and you might leach some of the minerals come oozing out, right? Because you're damaging that fruit. So maybe some potassium and maybe some magnesium leached out. But um, you can definitely chop up your fruit. You can, but you wanna store it in the fridge if you're not gonna eat it right away. And you can store it in the fridge for a couple of days and as long as it's cool it will retain its nutrients. What nutrients do not like is air, light and heat. So you wanna keep fruit cool away from the light and you don't wanna heat it up too much. 'cause each one of those in and of itself will decrease the amount of nutrients that are found in the fruit. So yes, fiber, not fiber, but minerals do. So if you soak cut fruit, you are gonna leach out your minerals, you're gonna leach out the B vitamins, the vitamin A and the um, vitamin C. So eat them quickly, eat them mindfully. But I don't think that's what you meant by that question. You don't necessarily have to eat them quickly if you store them in the fridge and maybe you buy some that aren't ripe so that you're not having to do that. You could store them if they're going bad quickly and you can store them in the freezer. So, um, yes you can store them.