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    In the food production industry ethylene gas is commonly used to do what?

    Question #52782. Asked by TLK. (Nov 30 04 8:33 AM)


    MrsAce

    		Tomatoes, for example, are often picked green and hard so that they can survive mechanical harvesting and long-distance transport, and then ripened in rooms pumped full of ethylene gas, which artificially initiates the ripening process. Tomatoes like these are much less flavourful and nutritious than the ripe tomato from a local farm, plucked from the vine and eaten the same day.

    Nov 30 04, 9:21 AM
    philsgirl

    		Peasy, your idea of cute eyes may be totally different from ranan's, or mine, for that matter.

    Dec 03 04, 11:42 PM
    TheAlphaWolf

    		They also use it to make certain plants, like bromiliads, flower earlier.

    Dec 04 04, 10:43 AM



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