Why do fruits get sweeter with time?
In: Biology
In case you wanted to know “how”. Many unripe fruits are full of starch, which are long chains of sugar molecules linked together. Starches are not directly digestible by animals, don’t taste sweet, and are generally bland and gross. As the fruit ripens those starches are digested and broken down into their constituent sugar molecules, which obviously do taste sweet and delicious. As u/CalibanDrive notes, this digestion is specifically timed so that the fruit becomes delicious in concert with the fruit seeds reaching maturity.
Latest Answers