Driscoll's "Finest Berries in the World" Organic Strawberries Review

I often wonder whether the organic farms where strawberries and other fruits are grown by ubiquitous Driscoll's are cross-contaminated by the harmful pesticides sprayed on the strawberries and other fruits of its farms. In fact, since I'm always seeing both organic and not organic Driscoll's fruits in stores, I'm rather inclined to wonder not whether but how much cross-contamination happens on Driscoll's farms. By the end of this review I hope to have the answer.

Driscoll's "Finest Berries in the World" Organic Strawberries ( Taste )

Whatever answer I find or deduce, if any, to whether or how much harmful pesticide cross-contamination goes on at Driscoll's farms, won't negate how exceptionally sweet and great-tasting this particular pound of Driscoll's Organic Strawberries tasted. Wow! Actually, double Wow! They were really that sweet and great-tasting.

Prior to this particular pack of strawberries, we had just finished another pack of Driscoll's Organic Strawberries that weren't even half as sweet as the strawberries prompting this review. So, it certainly wasn't the time of the year that separated the sweetness of the two different packs of strawberries.

Just how large of an area do Driscoll farms cover with strawberries? Perhaps one pack of strawberries were from one side of the farm and the other pack of strawberries was from far away, the other side of the strawberry fields, and that's why the two packs of strawberries were so separated in sweetness.

Driscoll's "Finest Berries in the World" Organic Strawberries ( Location & Conclusion )

Another Wow! On Driscoll's website is a feature I've never seen before: you can click a link that's at the top of the home page, which says, " See where your berries were grown." Once you click the link, you're taken to a page on which you're asked to enter the code from the package of berries.

I entered the code from the strawberry package, but unfortunately Driscoll's hasn't gotten around to entering the specific information about the particular great-tasting, sweet strawberries we've eaten. Driscoll's is very informative though, saying they started rolling out the "Track My Berries" program late in 2008 and it will take 12 to 18 months to complete. After getting a look at the worldwide map of wherever Driscoll's grows its berries, it's understandable though disappointing that they haven't entered in our particular strawberry information.

The way it works though, you enter in the code on the packaging holding whatever berries for which you're seeking information, and returned to you is product and nutrition data, food safety status, growing region, ranch name, and farmer profile. Again, Wow!

Finding out about pesticide cross-contamination will have to wait, for now. That will require doing homework at another time, seeing what an expansive farming operation, how ubiquitous Driscoll's really is. For now, we'll put a little more stock into Driscoll's slogan, "The Finest Berries in the World," and just enjoy the fact that this particular pound of strawberries were really, really good pound of strawberries. Thanks goes up to heaven, to The Creator of them!