Fruit quality - Apples

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Gosia [rawgosia] Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:35 PM

[Rawschool] Re: Fruit Quality

 

Thanks Elchanan, this has been helpful. In particular, the note on

stems. We buy lots of apples (apart from bananas, of course, and other

fruit), and I wasn't quite sure how to tell whether they are ripe,

except for the taste test.

 

All the best,

Gosia.

 

(http://www.rawgosia.com)

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You're welcome. WRT apples, here is a bit more information that may be

constructive.

 

Often, apples are harvested by cutting the stem so far down that it's

difficult to see well. But where some stem is present, I find that, for the

ripe apples, if I wiggle the stem it basically falls off the apple. Apples

whose stems are woody brown or reddish heading in the direction of woody

brown are ripe enough to eat in my kitchen, but there are some who would

disagree.

 

Also, AROUND the stem, you may find on many apples a radiating pattern of

drier, brownish coloring. This seems particularly common on some of the

green apples (Pippin, Granny Smith), but is also quite common, though less

pronounced, on red apples. This is an excellent indicator of ripening, the

apple is getting ready to fall from the tree.

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

 

 

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