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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 b
by 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 agointeresting. 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 agobtw 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 agoYou'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.