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Anyway these foods have been processed. What many people don't realise is that your "natural" fruits have been artificially ripened. There are food safety processes too such as washing and spraying with fungicide. There's also labelling and sorting that goes on.

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The "artificial" ripening with Ethylene isn't really as evil as it sounds, fruit emits it anyway as it becomes ripe. If you have for example some avocados that you want to ripen more quickly, putting them in a paper bag with ripe bananas or lemons will hasten the process significantly. Fruit on its own like bananas will ripen much more slowly than if they are surrounded by a bunch of peers.

Oh I'm not trying to make it sound evil.

The faster ripening is also true if they are surrounded by a bunch of pears.

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