{"id":10394,"date":"2010-09-06T03:48:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T03:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=10394"},"modified":"2010-09-06T03:48:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T03:48:22","slug":"ripening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ripening\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the market with a friend the other day and there were no ripe bananas.\u00a0 I told him to put them into a paper bag to ripen quicker.\u00a0 He was going to just put them in the cabinet but I told him they needed to be in a paper bag.\u00a0 I knew the paper bag was necessary because when fruit is picked, it releases ethylene gas.\u00a0 <em>That&#8217;s what causes fruit\u2019s chlorophyll to be broken down, causing color changes.\u00a0 It also causes starches to be converted into sugars, making the fruit sweet.\u00a0 It causes acids to be broken down, causing it to taste less sour; and pectin to be broken down, making it softer.\u00a0 Putting the fruit in a loosely closed paper bag traps the ethylene gas inside and accelerates ripening.<\/em> It made me think of the times I can use some ripening myself, times it would have been better for me to have stayed to myself, sealed up in my own personal atmosphere rather than out in the open where I&#8217;d stay green for so much longer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ripening\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Ripening&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ripening\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ripening\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ripening\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Ripening&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/ripening\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at the market with a friend the other day and there were no ripe bananas.\u00a0 I told him to put them into a paper bag to ripen quicker.\u00a0 He was going to just put them in the cabinet but I told him they needed to be in a paper bag.\u00a0 I knew the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}