Why Some Fruits Won’t Ripen On Your Counter

Thank you to HelloFresh for sponsoring this video! Use code EARTH14 for up to 14 FREE MEALS across your first 5 HelloFresh boxes plus free shipping at https://bit.ly/3vvSdyo Trying to ripen some fruits on your kitchen counter is totally fruitless - here s why. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: climacteric: a pattern of fruit ripening associated with increased ethylene production and a rise in cellular respiration (meaning that the fruit can ripen off the plant) nonclimacteric: ripening that is not characterized by a peak of ethylene production or respiration (and must happen on the plant) SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) CREDITS ********* Kate Yoshida | Script Writer, Narrator and Director Adam Thompson | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation Nathaniel Schroeder | Music MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info OUR STAFF ************ Sarah Berman • Arcadi Garcia i Rius David Goldenberg • Julián Gustavo Gómez Melissa Hayes • Alex Reich • Henry Reich • Peter Reich Ever Salazar • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida OTHER CREDITS ***************** Footage by Kate Yoshida: - Fruits on counter - Pineapple cut - Grocery store fruits Cherry photo by Khoa Ma https://unsplash.com/photos/Y2OD2mO3-AM Orange photo by Adam Nieścioruk https://unsplash.com/photos/ltn8ztC6kjk Pineapple photo by Fernando Andrade https://unsplash.com/photos/nAOZCYcLND8 Apple photo by Adam Thompson Banana photo by Moritz Kindler https://unsplash.com/photos/j-v3GVQ9lC8 Mango photo by Unsplash user triplemdesignz https://unsplash.com/photos/jiaruS1hf6Q OUR LINKS ************ Youtube | https://youtube.com/MinuteEarth TikTok | https://tiktok.com/@minuteearth Twitter | https://twitter.com/MinuteEarth Instagram | https://instagram.com/minute_earth Facebook | https://facebook.com/Minuteearth Website | https://minuteearth.com Apple Podcasts| https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minuteearth/id649211176 REFERENCES ************** Cherian, S., Figueroa, C. R., and Nair, H. (2014). ‘Movers and shakers’ in the regulation of fruit ripening: a cross-dissection of climacteric versus non-climacteric fruit. J. Exp. Bot. 65, 4705–4722. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24994760/ Fukano Y. & Tachiki Y. (2021). Evolutionary ecology of climacteric and non-climacteric fruits. Biology Letters 17 (9). https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0352 Leng, P., Yuan, B., & Guo, Y. (2014). The role of abscisic acid in fruit ripening and responses to abiotic stress. J. Exp. Bot. 65, 4577–4588. https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/65/16/4577/2877414 Lu, P. T. et al. (2018). Genome encode analyses reveal the basis of convergent evolution of fleshy fruit ripening. Nat. Plants 4, 784–791. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-018-0249-z Paul V., Pandey R., & Srivastava G.C. (2012). The fading distinctions between classical patterns of ripening in climacteric and non-climacteric fruit and the ubiquity of ethylene - an overview. Journal of Food Science and Technology, 49:01-21. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23572821/