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[–] hark@lemmy.world 87 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is like comparing apples and oranges.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 68 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, it's comparing apples and bananas.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You must be several fruits short of a salad, it's clearly it's comparing bananas and apples.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ur the fruit salad! And ur mom…

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 7 months ago

Your mom is so sweet, you can compare her to a fruit salad.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

In my experience that banana is what ripens all other fruit that is remotely near it. That apple hasn’t got much time left before it suddenly is rotten

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 48 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Which is funny because apples produce more ethylene gas, but they don’t react as intensely as bananas, which just rapidly decay

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ethylene-Production-Rates-Sensitivity-Levels-and-Principal-Effects-for-Some-Fresh_tbl1_236204770

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Hmm. I've always thought that bananas released the most ethylene; and that they can be used to ripen other fruit (or ripen themselves faster if you put them in a bag or something). ... But this seems to suggest it is apples that should be used for that - unless there's a significant difference between 'produced' and 'released'.

In any case, I guess it's something I might revisit and reassess.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago

wait till you hear about bananas and tomatoes!

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

We can pretty much halt aging in apples using a gas made of this stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCL2

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i can also halt aging in apples by eating them

[–] mogranja@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 7 months ago

As an added benefit, it reportedly has anti-doctor properties.

[–] Welt@lazysoci.al 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is that supposed to be the cytokine, or the gas dichlorocarbene?

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Whoops, should have been https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Methylcyclopropene it blocks ethylene receptors that a bunch of plants use for regulating ripening and responding to stress conditions like drought, flooding, high salt, etc.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That apple is black and dusty inside by now. Next stage, slow shrivelling.