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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.



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


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.




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