But i dont agree with this. The newly pick usually what we buy at grocery when vety green is very sour but when i wait for couple pf mins when it turns yellow it gets sweeter
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Who says this?
Fruit today is picked before it is fully ripened, often gassed to prevent further ripening until it is put out for purchase.
I dunno. It does. Maybe not drastically like peaches and plums, but it gets sweeter on your counter. It smells on the outside like pineapple when it’s ripe.
Copied from r/culinary for you.
“There are two types of fruit when it comes to ripening.
Climacteric and non-climacteric.
Climacteric fruit continue to ripen after they’ve been picked, because they produce and use ethylene gas to increase respiration and support the ripening enzymes, and this continues to convert starch into sugar even after they’ve been picked.
Non-climacteric fruit don’t ripen this way and are reliant on enzymes from the plant to ripen (and generally ripen slower). They will not continue to ripen after they are picked, however they will soften as they slowly start to decay/mature. This isn’t ripening though.
Climacteric fruit include apple, banana, mango, papaya, pear, apricot, peach, plum, avocado, plantain, guava, nectarine, passion fruit, blueberry, tomato and cantaloupe(unlike most melons). These will all continue to ripen after harvest.
Non-climacteric fruit include citrus fruits (ie: grapefruit lemon, yuzu), most berries such as raspberry, strawberry and cherry, grapes, pineapple, most melons (including watermelon), and pomegranate.
Pineapples most definitely will not, and it doesn’t matter what they look like on the outside, they do not have ethylene gas receptors and do not ripen after harvest.”
What you buy at the grocery store is not fresh and just picked. I don’t care where you are, it isn’t. Even in Hawaii, the pineapples at the store are already a couple weeks old and taste very different from pineapples at the plantation or from farm vendors on the side of the road.
They say that because it’s true. It gets softer, but it won’t get sweeter. When picked fresh, it’s sweet. Then it breaks down and gets the more sour and tangy taste most people know as pineapple. If you haven’t had pineapple pretty much the day it was picked, you have never tasted a fresh pineapple.
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