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Science of Success: What It Takes to Make a Better Berry

Science of Success: What It Takes to Make a Better Berry

Update: 2024-07-26
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What makes for a luxury strawberry? Is it the taste? Texture? Color? Around five years ago, berry company Driscoll’s released a new, premium line of berries with a higher price tag. Some consumers are shelling out almost 70% more to get their hands on this fancy fruit. But what are the qualities of a premium berry? On this Science of Success, we delve into the food science behind breeding and selling Driscoll’s Sweetest Batch, from creating more objective benchmarks for the highly subjective experience of taste to how the company works with supertasters and sensory analysts to create the best possible berry.




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Further reading:


Why America’s Berries Have Never Tasted So Good 


How Designer Fruit Is Taking Over the Grocery Store 


Trying to Breed Better Fruit 


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Science of Success: What It Takes to Make a Better Berry

Science of Success: What It Takes to Make a Better Berry

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