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it is not a one-off. this is commonly done in India. in fact people even put a branch of bananas into a steel storage drum full of raw rice to help them to ripe

• simonblack 2y ago
  Ripening fruit/veges give off ethylene oxide which causes further ripening. If you trap that ethylene oxide by putting the fruit or veges in a closed plastic bag, they will ripen even faster. Here in the tropics fruit ripens very quickly (chemical reactions proceed faster with increased temperature). I try to slow that down by keeping the stuff cold in the fridge. (But the fridge traps the EtO anyway!)
  • fuzztester 2y ago
    interesting. I think I remember reading that fruit producing companies use ethylene gas to artificially ripen some types of fruit. but I did not know that it can also happen naturally. good to know. I guess that explains why the traditional Indian method works. >If you trap that ethylene oxide by putting the fruit or veges in a closed plastic bag, they will ripen even faster. but why would you want to do that? trap that, I mean? i would have thought you would want to use a fan to blow away the naturally occurring ethylene gas, so that it does not cause the fruit to ripen fast / further.
    • fuzztester 2y ago
      btw i said ethylene gas but you said ethylene oxide. need to google if they are the same or not. a few minutes later: I just checked it. they are different. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethylene
      • simonblack 2y ago
        You're quite correct. It's ethylene and not ethylene oxide that does the ripening. Sometimes you don't want to have to wait days for a fruit to ripen, that's why it's faster to use the plastic bag trick.