You can not prevent fruit from rotting, but you can delay it. Bananas are best left out on the counter, but most other fruits, such as peaches, plums, apples,etc., are best left in the refrigerator. You can buy the least old fruits by feeling, smelling and looking at them. If peaches are ripe, the will look and feel firm with just a little give, the skin will be tight (no wrinkles), there will be no brown spots, and it will smell sweet and peachy where the stem comes out.
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables was created on -19-06-05.
Fruit that is old or has gone bad .
posums
Part of the rotting process is dehydration, losing moisture. As the fruit rot's, moisture is also lost which is weight.
no. Rotting fruit is just changing the form of the fruit not making an entirely new substance. So, it is a physical change. Sorry ... rotting is a chemical change - the bacteria and molds are "eating" the fruit and changeing it into the eqivalent of poo. Drying fruit would be mostly a physical change.
To stop something from rotting we preserve it. Preservation means to stop from rotting.
Fruit flies will lay eggs in rotting wood. Fruit flies will generally lay their eggs nearly anywhere that they can.
Chemical change
Any where there is a rotting banana
Actually, oxidation is a part of the rotting process.
freeze it
Petroleum Jelly on the cut edges of a pumpkin will slow the oxidation and rotting of the fruit.