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Why do ripe fruits - especially when canned - smell bad?
Radium writes:
On Jun 9, 11:46 pm, Omelet wrote: I did ask this question about ripe fruits last year. All I got was nonsense responses -- some blaming it on my "genes" or nervous system. Both which I know to be totally wrong. Why do you think those answers were 'nonsense' and 'totally wrong'? If most people thought ripe fruits smelled bad, there simply wouldn't be a market for ripe fruits whatsoever, especially canned fruit. The fact that both sell well should tell you that most people _don't_ find them bad smelling. What chemicals are responsible for the foul smell of ripe fruits? Why is the odor even worse if the fruits are canned? You need to rephrase the question: "What chemicals are responsible for making ripe fruit smell bad to me?" However, since we are not you, we can't asnwer that. We don't know how or why your sense of smell is different from most people. I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that it is *not* putricine, ethylene, butyric acid [or any acid/acidic substance for that matter], ethanol, chemicals resulting from fungus, or chemicals resulting from decomposition. In addition, the answer is nothing close to what "Bill Penrose" [the goofball] claimed. I am guessing it is most likely an organic substance [i.e. a compound containing carbon and hydrogen] but none of those described above. What you need to do is to find an organic chemist who knows what fairly volatile compounds are common in ripe fruit, eliminate those you listed above (other than acids, many odoriferous organic compounds are acids, and ripe fruits certainly contain acids), eliminate those in unripe fruit and ripe apples, and ask for a sniff test of the remaining compounds. Please obey my desperate requests to answer rationally and as correctly as you can. Please also keep out the jokes, humor, and off- topic crap. It's not amusing. If you are going to insist on dismissing what others have told you and what should be obvious to you (there is something different about you), and continue to claim ripe fruits smell bad rather than ripe fruits smell bad to you, you're going to draw jokes and insults, or be dismissed as a troll. So are you really interested in an answer, or are you a troll? If you really want an answer, nobody here can answer you, other than in an organic chemistry lab. |
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