cherries take a minute to brush up on the facts so your cherry plans don't turn out to be the pits rainier delicate and sweet the flesh is pure yellow very firm and finely textured orondo ruby scarlet red-blushed skin with juicy-sweet flavor grown in small quantities bing the best-known sweet and deep mahogany-red wild sweet unique variety with high sweet flavor the surface of the fruit-yellow varieties tend to bruise easier than others storing cherries will stay fresh for up to in the fridge warm to room temperature for best flavor freezer bags pressing out air before in the freezer the bottom of the cherry and press through the fun fact it takes 250 cherries to make a cherry pie best produce period