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Response to LizBeth (Reply #17)
Sat Jul 24, 2021, 03:47 PM
ProfessorGAC (60,982 posts)
19. Possible
But, I'm going the other way.
The fast track process is to expose the fruit to an ethylene rich atmosphere for a few hours. It accelerates the ripening process. They do that with tomatoes using ethylene oxide and have for years. EO is naturally occurring in tomatoes. I've worked many times at a site in Colombia where one side of the valley was banana groves. I noticed over the years fewer & fewer unpicked fruit on the ground. Those unpicked fruit would ripen to rotten & the stream water would run yellow. I think they started picking earlier, then used the ethylene chamber to ripen for market, because less fruit had time to fall to the ground. BTW: the other side of the valley was coffee. I saw guys picking beans many times. You can have that job! |
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