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Climacteric fruits ripen after harvesting and so some fruits for market are picked green (e.g. bananas and tomatoes). Underripe fruits are also fibrous, not as juicy, and have tougher outer flesh than ripe fruits (see Mouth feel). Eating unripe fruit can lead to stomachache or stomach cramps, and ripeness affects the palatability of fruit.
While pumpkins can handle a light frost that may kill the vines, they won’t ripen after picking if they experience a heavy frost or if they are exposed to temperatures below 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
“Eggplant can be frozen if it is cooked first,” he says. “I would recommend that you slice the eggplant into thin slices and bake it in the oven for about 20 to 30 minutes.
Non-climacteric fruits ripen without ethylene and respiration bursts, the ripening process is slower, and for the most part they will not be able to ripen if the fruit is not attached to the parent plant. [3] Examples of climacteric fruits include apples, bananas, melons, apricots, tomatoes, as well as most stone fruits.
For pumpkins to grow well and ripen, they'll need full sun, which is 6 or more hours of direct sun per day. "More is better," says McLaughlin. "Ideally, they like seven or eight hours of full sun."
A 2008 study of a sample of 741 people in India, where eggplant is commonly consumed, found nearly 10% reported some allergic symptoms after consuming eggplant, with 1.4% showing symptoms within two hours. [86]
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Leucinodes orbonalis, the eggplant fruit and shoot borer or brinjal fruit and shoot borer, is a moth species in the genus Leucinodes described by Achille Guenée in 1854. Its native distribution is in the tropical and subtropical parts of Australia and Asia, where it is recorded from Pakistan, Nepal, India, including the Andaman Islands, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam ...