Is it true if you leave two types of fruit beside each other on a counter they rot quicker then normal?!
This is why if you put a piece of fruit in a bag, it will ripen faster (because the gas stays trapped in the bag.) If you leave fruit bunched together, it can have the same effect.
Just two pieces of fruit sitting next to eachother won't speed it up THAT much.
If you're interested in ways to slow down or speed up the ripening of fruit, temperature also affects it. The warmer it is, the faster it ripens. Most fruit will stop ripening once it gets put in the refrigerator. I put bananas in the fridge when they reach the perfect way I like them (when they have little brown dots). Bananas are unique because their skins turn black in the fridge, but despite what many people will tell you, they are completely fine to eat that way. There's also fruit that stops ripening once it's cut off the tree, like pineapples.
Answers: Yes. Fruit gives off a gas and when this gas touches the fruit or other pieces, it speeds up their metabolism (making them ripen faster, or eventually rot faster.)
This is why if you put a piece of fruit in a bag, it will ripen faster (because the gas stays trapped in the bag.) If you leave fruit bunched together, it can have the same effect.
Just two pieces of fruit sitting next to eachother won't speed it up THAT much.
If you're interested in ways to slow down or speed up the ripening of fruit, temperature also affects it. The warmer it is, the faster it ripens. Most fruit will stop ripening once it gets put in the refrigerator. I put bananas in the fridge when they reach the perfect way I like them (when they have little brown dots). Bananas are unique because their skins turn black in the fridge, but despite what many people will tell you, they are completely fine to eat that way. There's also fruit that stops ripening once it's cut off the tree, like pineapples.
I have a big family and I leave a bowl out for the kids all the time. there are some fruits that spoil faster than others though. like bananas will go before the apples. apples pretty good lasting fruit. I don't think so really. even when I got my fruit rack and the fruits are more spread out they still spoil in the same amount of time as they do usually.
it depends on the type of fruit so yes and no
Yes, that is as long as the fruits in question give off nitrogen as part of their ripening process
if you put apples and bananas together then one will rot quicker, I think it's the apple.