Ripeness Sticker Coming to Supermarket Fruit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday July 26, 2006 @05:58PM from the give-me-talking-fruit-science dept.

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.""

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Re:Metric by jkburges · 2006-07-26 18:42 · Score: 1, Redundant

Don't you mean "litres" rather than "liters" for those non-US readers (i.e. the correct English spelling is "litres")?
Aww.. by rf0 · 2006-07-27 00:59 · Score: 0, Redundant

Now it means I don't have an excuse to go round squeezing peoples melons (yes I know its a bad joke)

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