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Subject: Why Do Ripe Fruits Smell Bad?

Date: Sun May 21 05:21:27 2006
Posted by Green
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Area of science: Botany
ID: 1148214087.Bt
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Hi: 

I notice that many fruit emit foul odors when ripe. What chemicals are 
responisble for this? 

I hate those odors. That why I like to eat apricots, peaches, and similar 
fruits when they are sour, hard, and greenish. When sour, hard, and greenish, 
most fruits smell pleasant. When they are too ripe, they become excessively 
sweet, grossly-soft up and turn mucus-yellow; this is when they start to 
STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!! 

What causes those immeasureably-foul odors? 


Thanks, 

Green


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