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Q: Why are tomatoes transported while they are unripe?
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True or False fried green tomatoes are made with unripe green tomatoes?

TRUE


What fruit begins with ta?

Tomatoes are a green fruit. Fried green tomatoes are a food dish found in the Southern U.S., made from unripe tomatoes.


Many people leave unripe tomatoes on a brightly lit window sill to ripen Some people put unripe tomatoes in a drawer with ripe ones How could you find out which way is the best?

Putting an unripe tomato in the sunlight is a bad way to ripen them. The best place to put an unripened tomato is on top of your refrigerator. The warmth is what helps them to ripen. Enjoy your tomatoes!


Where are tomatoes transported after they are packed?

they are sent to prison


Why does the color of unripe tomatoes and mangoes change when the get ripen from green to red?

becasue they feel like turning red


Explain how genetic engineering produces tomatoes that are ripe when they reach consumers?

Scientists have introduced a gene into the tomatoes that allow then to be picked green and transported great distances before they ripen completely.


What room tomatoes unripe should kept in?

Well, if you keep them in sunlight after you pick them, they will start to ripen. But, I'm not sure about store bought. I would just keep store bought in the fridge. Hope this helped.


How can genetic engineering produce tomatoes that are ripe when they reach consumers?

"Normally" tomatoes soften as they ripen, so they are usually picked green and shipped in that unripe state so they will stay firm. Just before delivery to the consumer these tomatoes are forced to ripen by gassing with the plant hormone ethylene gas. The consumer gets firm, ripe tomatoes (but less than fully sweet). These tomatoes will soften. Using genetic engineering you can delete or disable the gene for the enzyme that causes the tomatoes to soften as they ripen, so they can be allowed to fully ripen on the vine (and become fully sweet) before they are picked and shipped. The consumer gets firm, ripe, and sweet tomatoes. These tomatoes will remain firm.


What is the opposite of ripe?

There are several that could be used: green, unripe, unripened and immature.


Can you eat an unripe avocado?

yes but it won't be as good as when it is ripe


Can you add citric acid while tomatoes are cooking?

no


Can you make banana bread without unripe bananas?

The bananas should be over ripe for banana bread - not unripe.