When comparing apples and oranges there is one major difference when it comes to ripening.
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Why Some Fruits Don't Ripen on Your Countertop
The fir eats / Julia Hartbeck
Ever wonder why that mango you buy at home keeps ripening while your strawberries don’t get any sweeter or juicier and instead just start to mold? It turns out it’s not random. “Ripening is a very complex and highly coordinated metabolic process” explains Rob Blakey PhD Director of Agric Research & Development at Stemilt. And according to Farm Manager Dominique Kline of The Hope Farm in Alabama “some fruits have a mechanism that synthesizes ethylene a naturally occurring hormone that plays a role in the change in composition and conversion of starch to sugar that occurs during ripening.”
When it comes to fruit ripening there are two categories of fruit to keep in mind to unravel the mystery of the “will-it-keep-ripening?” saga: climacteric and non-climacteric fruit. “Climacteric fruit can [continue] to ripen off the tree once it reaches maturity; non-climacteric fruit must ripen and mature on the bush or tree” Dr. Blakey explains.
