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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

It seems less like it spoils them, and more like it makes them age faster. This means that theoretically you could put a bad apple in a basket of unripe apples in order to make them ripe — and the article says farmers use the chemical bad apples produce to make bananas ripe.

It says nothing about the speed, though, which is something I want to know. Does it happen in a few hours, a few days, weeks, what?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah I guess you're right that it just causes a more rapid aging of the produce around it.

Idk about the speed. It would be a fun experiment to play around with.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It probably wouldn't smell that fun, though.