how does fruit ripen even after it has been picked?

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Like if it’s not getting nutrients from the plant itself, what causes the ripening process?

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The fruit still keeps releasing the hormone ethylene, and that’s the reason also why the fruit starts going bad because it does not know when to stop so it keeps releasing the hormone and then gets overripe

Also they ripen faster when kept in a bag because ethylene cannot escape.