overripe fruit

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overripe fruit

Post by Justin »

RRM, often i buy perfectly ripe mangoes so i can eat them when i get home. Sometimes they go overripe, but not overripe to the point of decay/bad smell or even colour change (darker colour). They are just VERY soft and have that taste of overripeness. Can u explain a bit about overripe fruit, the chemicals it contains, can this cause sickness or anything? thanks
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Post by RRM »

No, overipe fruits are very good for you. They dont contain any bad stuff; they are just more easy to digest and contain the least antinutrients. The riper the better (unless they start tasting bad).
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Now that it is summer and warmer and bit more humid, would it be a good idea to leave my oranges outside in order for them to ripen faster? Leaving them inside, it takes a week before they are ripe/overripe enough to juice and I was thinking that the warmer weather could only help them mature a little faster.

Also RRM,

I like to buy the oranges a few days in advance before juicing them, but now I've found that in order to make sure they really ripe/overripe I need to buy them a week in advance. Do you have some sort of 'game plan' for buying oranges?
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Post by Cairidh »

put them with bananas - bananas release thingies that make fruit ripen quicker.
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Cairidh wrote:bananas release thingies that make fruit ripen quicker
Indeed, bananas release ethylene, which speeds ripening.
nick wrote:would it be a good idea to leave my oranges outside in order for them to ripen faster
I think this is a marvellous idea... sun-ripened oranges indeed. Regarding your 'game plan' for buying oranges, I buy a case of oranges every week, to use the following week. Sometimes I even buy them ten days in advance, especially if the oranges are large and don't seem too juicy inside. Ten days works miracles... I can almost smell the orange fragrance in the mornings!
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Post by huntress »

I can almost smell the orange fragrance in the mornings!
Oh...don't you just love that... :D

I especially like the smell of my room after peeling oranges. The aroma of ripening fruits are natures best scent! 8)
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Yeah, I love that smell. It brings images of my house being an orchard/rain forest/garden. Its really awesome!
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I can't eat organic oranges in public. It's embarrassing.

The fragrance reaches to all far corners of the building and people make such an issue of it. It causes such a fuss. :oops:
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Post by huntress »

Aw Cairidh that's too bad!
I guess the reason why people make such an issue about it because they are more used to the smell of cooked/dead foods rather than the sweet scent of fruits. I remember that before being on this diet, the smell of apples, oranges, and (especially) durians, made me feel nauseated but the smell of cooked food attracted me. But is it a total opposite now!

And Cairidh, if I were to be in that same building with you, I'd come up to you and we'll have an orange picnic together! :D
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Post by Oscar »

I too buy a crate one or two weeks in advance, so they can ripen.
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Post by Chin-Chin »

So that's how you guys ripen oranges?!

I had no idea. How do you tell when an orange is ripe? I think I've been eating tasteless, sour oranges all my life...
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Post by Oscar »

It's not that easy to tell. Usually they get a bit softer to the touch. At the moment I'm using Cubanita oranges, and after 2 weeks they're supersweet, and not sour or acidic at all. :)
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Post by avalon »

Now I see!
Primate ancestors of Homo sapiens were highly dependent on fruit, and so, the new theory goes, they developed a strong attraction to the ethanol that
naturally spikes lusciously ripe and overripe fruits. This predilection was
then passed on to humans.
http://www.save-the-elephants.org/Eleph ... phants.htm

You're all just a bunch-O-boozers! :wink:
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Post by Oscar »

I'm Oscar, and I drink overripe orange juice... ;)
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Post by nick »

ha!

me too!
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