Peaches

[Snappy]

How come when you eat a peach they are fibrous but when you have tinned peaches they are all smooth+lovely+taste different to a normal peach?

[becks]

Cos there isn't any skin on them and they're usually in syrup which makes them slimyesque i suppose.

[Snappy]

no but when you bite a peach bits get stuck in your teeth, this doesnt happen with tinned ones

[thewillow]

Are tinned peaches cooked to some degree?

[Casey]

I have noticed that Nectarines get stuck in your teeth alot more than Peaches do. Are you getting the two mixed up?

[New Forester]

Tinned peaches must surely be cooked, or they'd go off in the tin.  The whole principle of tinning and bottling is to cook to death then seal out the air while still boiling.

 

But anyway, it's an easy test to make: cook fresh peach, taste.  Who's got a fresh peach about the place?

 

Casey - nectarines are just varieties of peach which do not have the fuzz, so there is no consistent difference once the skin is off.

 

Another possibility is that different varieties are used for tinning.

 

Personally I much prefer fresh ones, if properly ripe -- I find tinned ones rather slimy (but why should that put me off?  I like snails, pickled mushrooms and lots of other slimy things).

 

[smudge]

I adore tinned peaches with Tip Top - yummy!

[MORELLO]

When I was about 7 my mum once gave me and my brother a tinned peach half in syrup, and told us it was a raw egg.