A Fruit Bowl Mystery

[BuzzPrincessMom]

Okay I know it is a wierd title, but it is the truth.

I have a large glazed bowl I keep fresh fruit in. I have noticed sometimes my fruit goes bad VERY quickly. I am wondering if it is the types of fruit and if some give off something that turns the others bad (I know it sounds odd).
This week I bought peaches, nectarines, pears, oranges and pineapple. Some of my peaches went yucky very fast.

I don't notice the fruit going bad as quickly when I don't buy a variety.


Any advice is greatly appreciated.

 

[java]

Peaches should be stored in the FRIDGE! If you like it room temp- store it in the fridge and take it out and let it get to room temp then eat. Peaches last only about a week in the fridge anyway. oh but they are yummy in season.

 

[vicki_c]

There are different fruits and veggies that should not be stored together, but I don't really know which they are. The only one I know is that they say potatoes and onions should not be stored near each other (which I do anyway) because one gives off gases that makes the other go bad quicker.

I never store peaches in the fridge until they are ripe though. At the store, they are usually not totally ripe and need about a day at room temp to fully ripen.

 

[a1tinkfans]

Yum, love fruit! I keep peaches in fridge. I honestly try to buy under ripe fruit. I then toss in a brown bag to ripen over night. I do the same with avocado's
I think much fruit goes bad/soft quickly. The oranges should do okay in the bowl , anything with a harder skin I think. I use a bowl that is wire and is rather open though. Sometimes I toss it all in a pretty ceramic bowl but have not noticed any difference.

 

[iteach7th]

Some produce can produce ethylene, which is a gas that can damage other fruits when they begin to go through the ripening process. That doesn't mean damage - bad damage - just make them over ripen quickly.

Ethylene is commonly used to ripen fruits and vegetables to make them ready to sell. Apples and pears naturally produce this gas as they go through the ripening process. I tell my students it is like an "aging hormone". Not sure but I think I remember reading somewhere that bananas when placed in the presence of other fruits will begin to produce ethylene as well - which would make sense why bananas ripen so quickly.

I don't know if it helps but I always store citrus together, apples and pears together, fruit like peaches, plums etc in the fridge and bananas away from everything else.

 

[digitalsiren]

I think peaches release ethylene gas and it one of the fruits you can easily ripen at home by placing them in a paper bag (same for tomatoes, bananas.) So if they weren't unpacked right away or weren't on top of the bowl and covered in some manner that may be why.

It could also be that they were slightly frozen during shipment if this is a new issue.

 

[BuzzPrincessMom]

Wow, Thanks

You know I have noticed this problem when I buy pears! Okay I will segregate everyone! The peaches were out on the counter to ripen, and also encourage my peach loving children to eat more fruit.

I will keep my pears separate -

are nectarines different because they skin?

Thank you!!!

 

[sameyeyam]

I know that apples give off a gas that ripens other fruits quicker. As a matter of fact if you have fruit that needs to be ripened, put it in a paper sack with apples and it will ripen quickly. I just ripened some rock hard mangoes in about two days that way.

I always try to keep my apples away from bananas because of that. If you mix the two together in a bowl they bananas ripen real quick.