Is your broccoli yellow in the fridge and you’re wondering if you can still eat it? We’ll give you the answer and show you the best way to store broccoli.
Yellow Broccoli: Is It Still Edible?
If your broccoli is yellow, you can still eat it, even if it has lost its flavor and most of its vitamins, antioxidants, and minerals.
In order to curb food waste, we therefore recommend that you eat yellow broccoli instead of throwing it away. You can process it into various dishes: for example, into a broccoli soup, a broccoli and potato casserole or as oven vegetables.
This is the best way to store broccoli
So that your broccoli does not turn yellow in the first place, there are a few things you can do when storing it.
For short-term storage of a few days:
Place broccoli in a glass filled with water like a bouquet of flowers. Then store the broccoli further back in the fridge to keep it as cold as possible.
For long-term storage of up to one year:
You can freeze broccoli to preserve it for a longer period of time. The best way to do this is to cut the broccoli into small pieces and blanch it. That means you put the broccoli pieces in boiling salted water for about five minutes. Then you scare them off with cold water. When the blanched broccoli is cold, you can put it in the freezer.
