Knowing how to store fruits and vegetables, depending on their ripening, can help save and avoid food waste. In fact, we have already told you on several occasions how to store bananas or preserve potatoes.
All this has a scientific explanation. Chemist and journalist América Valenzuela, collaborator of various media, publishes The Secret Life of Your Shower Head (Geoplaneta), in which she explains scientific curiosities about some objects and aspects of domestic life.
When fruits ripen, Valenzuela explains, "they emit ethylene, a plant hormone, through their pores. If other nearby fruits come into contact with this gas, they also ripen."
"If we put a climacteric fruit with a non-climacteric fruit, we can stimulate the ripening of the latter if it is green. Or if it is ripe, we will not put them together so that it does not spoil prematurely," says Valenzuela. We can also put two climacteric fruits together to accelerate their ripening.
The ideal, if all the fruits are at their peak, is to store the non-climacteric ones in the refrigerator so that they keep longer. The climacteric ones, according to this, will go to the fruit bowl or at room temperature, in a cool place, to avoid the accumulation of this gas.
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