The short answer is Yes.

With the qualifier that it’s not known to be unhealthy, and preserving fruit to eat in the future is considered better than eating no fruit at all because you’re afraid of spoilage.

Freezing changes a liquid in to a solid. Freezing fruit stops a bunch of microorganisms in the fruit from dancing around because the water needed for growth has turned into solid ice crystals.

So picture your strawberry ready to begin spoiling if you leave it out on the table. But when you put it in the freezer instead, the spoiling process cannot go forward. And the fruit stays as it is.

Understanding this fact about freezing fruit supports efficient eating. You can buy fresh fruit at supermarkets, farmers’ markets, or by the side of the road, and know that you can preserve what you bought for months, maybe years. Some believe the taste is irrevocably altered when fruit is frozen for a long time, and there is no doubt fresh picked ripe fruit eaten in the moment tastes sweeter than flash frozen and transported fruit – but the nutritional value and contribution to your healthy diet is believed to be the same.

And since we cannot all transport to tropical islands to stay healthy, we have to manage our fresh fruit as we find it.

Buy your fresh fruit in bulk and use freezer bags or other containers to store it in the freezer. You can separate the fruit by the week, assuming you bought fresh fruit that would last one week.

But frozen food should not be kept forever. In fact the Mayo Clinic stated in an article that people should do at least an annual ‘freeze’ clean to remove older frozen food that may no longer look or taste edible.

For busy entrepreneurs, the purpose of freezing fresh fruit is to preserve the quality for at least two to four weeks, not months. The best practice would be to purchase large quantities of fresh fruit, especially berries, and separate them into smaller freezer sized containers or bags for later consumption.