Guest guest Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 ah ha! thanks - this makes more sense now. explicit and book quality description. Libra's Rule =) RawSeattle , Anthony D'Atri <aad@b...> wrote: > > > It's intended to be a metric of the level of sugars in the fruit's > juice, which some folks use as a measure of the quality/desirability > of that fruit. It's typically measured with a simple refractometer, > but brix refractometers are meant to measure the percentage of sugar > in a pure sucrose solution, where the index of refraction can be > reasonably correlated to the concentration. I'm skeptical that the > results that people get squeezing fruit into them are accurate, both > because of the other dissolved/suspended materials and because of > calibration. > > > oh so pardom my ignorance on this too; does brix mean " ripe > > straight from the source " > > or something like that? > > > > Helen <helensy@c...> wrote: > > The Anjou pear from Cliffside farm was so hi-brix because they are > > completely tree-ripe. They just won't pick the fruit until they are > > ripe. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 > ah ha! thanks - this makes more sense now. explicit and book > quality description. Libra's Rule =) > Hey, I'm an engineer, what can I say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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