[ConfusedGardener]

I was recently told by someone that fruit should never be eaten straight from the plant after it's been in the sun. It should first be put in the fridge for a while. I've never heard anything like this before, and I'm not sure why this would be true. Can anyone shed light on this claim?

Please also feel free to add any other "suspect" things you've heard/been told to this thread.

[DD.]

That's as bad as planting a chunk of rhubarb with your brassicas to prevent club root. Brassicas like acidic conditions, so why plant oxalic acid with them?

[sowitgrowit]

Sounds like cobblers to me 

Where would we have been for thousands of years before fridges? 

[Springlands]

Definitely rubbish - most fruits will taste better slightly warm - not forgetting that they keep better in the fridge.

[Beetroot Queen]

Must be rubbish as those strawberries I ate as a kid while picking our own tasted far better warm and direct from the plant.

[dugless]

That's as bad as planting a chunk of rhubarb with your brassicas to prevent club root. Brassicas like acidic conditions, so why plant oxalic acid with them?

Hi, DD is that an ommition I thought Brassicas liked the opposite.

[Madame Cholet]

I'm on alkaline and clay they like that.

I think all chilled food tastes better at body temperature.

[ConfusedGardener]

I think it must have been a bit too early in the morning for DD, and he probably meant "alkaline"!

[Goosegirl]

I think he meant dislike! Anyway, I've never heard of this before, plus eating fruit straight from the plant is what you love to do when slowly walking back to the kitchen!  I can't think of any scientific reason either, so just ignore it.

[ConfusedGardener]

I'll definitely be ignoring that advice! I was extremely skeptical to begin with, but just wanted to check that there was nothing to it.

[vron]

Hi DD, I think you mean alkaline soil. 

[DD.]

Yep, never try and post at that time of day!

[dugless]

Just as I thought (do not ) that's what's missing.

[Markw]

It is a Myth, I expect that it was started by some fridge company. They taste so much better fresh, please don't forget you need to have some rubbishnto sell your fridges !!!!!

[beesrus]

It's not just myths that are misleading or downright wrong. Just look at the food "facts" handed down to us mere mortals on a plate by the scientists and politicians over the years. What was good and healthy one minute, is almost poisonous the next, and then back again. If I have one regret in my eating life, it is believing the myth that butter was bad for you. 30 years I have eaten that god knows what chemical concoction called margarine. I'm ashamed I fell for it.  No more. I'm back on butter.
One other "myth" always irritated me as it presented itself as a fact, but what a pointless fact .... ie .. take the tea pot to the kettle, not the reverse. Purleeeease, as if it makes 0.001% of a difference in reality to your cuppa.

Outside of misleading technicalities, I  happen to really quite like myths in general social life and out in the wild, and have always been in to starting one or two myself. They add colour, mystery and long forgotten direction to our lives. Somebody has to start them. Maybe this fruit myth was started by a Frigidaire salesman in the 1920s.