Muffins Meet Strawberries – Brown bananas are great mashed into bread, Overripe strawberries can be used in just the same way, mashed or simply chopped, and mixed into sweet breads, muffin batter, pancake mix, or any other cake or baked good. 
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Can you use overripe strawberries for smoothies?
Smoothies – Smoothies are a great way to use up past-prime strawberries. Freeze the berries, then add them to a blender with other fruit, veggies and yogurt for a great breakfast on-the-go, like our PB&J-inspired smoothie,10 / 10 TinaFields/Getty Images
What is the fuzz on old strawberries?
Is it OK to eat moldy strawberries? – If you find white fluffy stuff on your berries that looks a bit like cotton candy, that is mold. Mold is a fungus with spores that feed on the berries and grow thin threads that can look like fluff or cotton. This particular type of mold is common among fruits and is known as Botrytis fruit rot or gray mold,
While moldy strawberries are unlikely to harm you, they can make you sick if you are allergic to molds in general, according to the USDA, And since berries are a soft-fleshed food, unlike apples or pears, it is not safe to simply cut away the moldy part, since the spores have likely gone into the flesh of the berry.
If a berry is bruised, but does not show any signs of mold, the bruised part can be trimmed away. A moldy strawberry should be thrown out. If you happen to accidentally eat a moldy strawberry, you’ll know it because, usually, moldy strawberries will have an off flavor that is a bit sour and acidic and may remind you of blue cheese.
- The off taste is nature’s red flag that your red berries are bad, if you missed the visual mold.
- A small amount of this mold is unlikely to make you sick.
- If you ate a larger amount, you might have some signs of gastric distress similar to mild food poisoning, but it should resolve on its own, and is not toxic or especially dangerous, just uncomfortable.
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Can you dehydrate overripe strawberries?
How to Choose Berries – Save your softest and most juicy ripe strawberries from the peak season for fresh eating. Let the juice dribble down your chin, enjoying the burst of flavor only a summer strawberry can deliver. Select fresh and fully ripened fruit to dehydrate.
Overripe fruit is not the best for the dehydration process for a couple of reasons. It is not easy to slice uniformly and is messy to work with. Sort and discard any fruit that shows decay, bruises, or mold. Take your lovely ripe tasty strawberries, without any white on the exterior, and set them aside to dehydrate.
Immature produce lacks wonderful flavor and color. Dehydration will not improve the quality of the fruit so selecting fruit at the peak of ripeness is best.
What part of a strawberry should you not eat?
Most of us are accustomed to lobbing off the top of strawberries before eating or baking, but the whole berry — flesh, leaves, stem, and all — is totally edible.