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Tomatoes and apples give off ethylene (a gas) which will speed the decay of the other greens. This can be useful. If you put green bananas next to apples in a fruit bowl the bananas will ripen faster than if left on their own. In fact if you put tomatoes in a bag they will ripen faster than if left unenclosed as the ethylene is trapped in the bag.

This effect was discovered by accident. Banana ripening sheds used to be heated by kerosene lamp type affairs. When modern heating was installed the fruit took longer to ripen. It was found that ethylene was produced as a by product of the burning kerosene and it was that which was speeding the ripening process.

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