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Ripeness Sticker Coming to Supermarket Fruit
Adam Weiss writes "A biosystems engineering professor has just announced a "ripeness sticker" for fruit. According to this AP article, grocers throw out thousands of bushels of fruit a year because it ripens too fast (1 bushel is about 9 U.S. gallons). Mark Riley's RediRipe stickers turn from white to blue as fruit ripens. The stickers react with ethylene gas, a chemical which is released as fruit or vegetables ripen. However the article says "there are still bugs to be worked out: The stickers do not change color to reflect an overripe or rotten piece of fruit. Also, not all fruit produces enough ethylene to be detected by the sticker.""
...use the old-fashioned method, scratch and sniff.
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1 lot = 12.8 grams, but unfortunately this is a measure of mass, not volume.
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I'm more concerned about how many hogsheads to the bushel. Now that I know I can get 6.77 hogshead to the bushel, I understand.
A small modification of these stickers (e.g. amount of alcohol in blood) would make them very suitable for blind dates.
Best way is not to think about how many Bushells equals a Quart Etc., instead think about having peeling yet another sticker off your food before you can eat it.
How about a ripeness sticker that flips into an alternate universe where people like stickers on their fruit as soon as it senses my mouth getting near!!
I know a few coworkers I could stick a "ripeness" sticker on...
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You could always put up pictures to help people with how to tell what ripe fruit of whatever variety looks/feels like. It's relatively easy with bananas, but you cant' squeeze tomatoes to tell if they're ripe. The only thing we need stickers for is mangoes, because no one in the world knows when a mango is ripe!
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Need one of these for girls:
"18 yet? Let me check the sticker....Giggaty giggity gig!"
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