Fizzy Fruit?

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Almost two years ago I attended a resturant food show in Houston. There were about a jillion booths hawking their wares. In the very back was a booth setup with what amounted to just a card table with a plate of various fruits on it. There were fresh grapes, peaches, plums, and probably more. What was interesting was somehow they were carbonated. You bit into the fruit and it would fizz just like soda water! How on earth would they have made them. Have never seen it in the marketplace.

-- Ken Donnell, Plantersville, TX (palooza98@ev1.net), March 05, 2002

Answers

I remember reading about this. It's called Fizzyfruit. They carbonated the fruit with a process that used co2 or dry ice. Some marketing company thought that kids would be more prone to eat fruit if it fizzed. I think they ran some test markets but it never got off the ground.

-- Dave (multiplierx9@hotmail.com), March 05, 2002.

Take most any sort of fruit (not bannanas) and put it in a sealed container with dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) and allow the ice to sublimate (goes directly from solid to gas) in such a way to allow the air pressure to rise up fairly high but not so much that it explodes. Some sort of pressure release valve is what you'd need. The high partial pressure of the carbon dioxide will force the gas into solution in the liquids in the fruit where it will come out again when the fruit is eaten or when it warms up and sits in normal air. You want the fruit to be cold but not frozen. Outside of a pressurized container the fizz will so go out of the fruit so it's an ephemeral kind of thing.

I've never done this commercially, discovered it by accident when doing food storage work with dry ice. Fizzy grapes just don't appeal to me.

........Alan.

-- Alan (athagan@atlantic.net), March 05, 2002.


FizzyFruit is alive and kicking. Just off to a slow start with funding. But it will be on the market one of these days... visit www.fizzyfruit.com

-- Galen Kaufman (gdk@fizzyfruit.com), April 24, 2002.

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