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[quote=Anonymous]Daughter of cherry farmers and have spent many hours raising, picking and packing cherries - Fresh cherries are NOT dyed.  As a PP mentioned, there are many many different types of cherries and the color, sugar content and firmness differs significantly, as does when they ripen.  While most consumers only think of red or yellow cherries, there are actually 100s of different types of cherries.  Red cherries can range from lighter crimson (Sweetheart) to deep scarlet almost black (Bing, Van, Skeena to name a few).  And then there are the yellow/white cherries, the most common in the U.S. are Rainers.  My favorites are Skeenas, but they tend to be a later cherry - my family doesn’t pick ours until mid to late July.  You will also likely notice that cherries in the market now are lighter red, that is because they are picked too early, in my opinion, to respond to consumer demand and not based on clear measures of cherry readiness - sugars and pressure in the fruit.  The absolute best cherry is one picked directly off the tree on the day it is perfectly ripe (and yes red juice will run down your hand if you are lucky!).  Of course for commercial products it is always a balance, as you must pick the cherry when it has enough sugar but the pressure isn’t too high so it will be damaged in shipment.[/quote]

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