Why do tomato growers gas the tomatoes,name the gas,and give the real reason?

Answer 1

Hope this is what you wanted. John.



Picking and ripening
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Tomatoes are often picked unripe (and thus green), and ripened in storage with ethylene. Ethylene is a hydrocarbon gas produced by many fruits that acts as the cue to begin the ripening process. Tomatoes ripened in this way tend to keep longer, but have poorer flavor and a mealier, starchier texture than tomatoes ripened on the plant. They may be recognized by their color, which is more pink or orange than the other ripe tomatoes' deep red.

Answer 2

If I recall my botany, they're using ethylene. Ethylene is a naturally occurring plant hormone that causes fruits to ripen. Thus, you can pick fruit when it's not ripe (when it's more firm, so it ships better) and then store them in an ethylene-rich environment to ripen them for sale. Makes for a rather tasteless tomato, though.

Answer 3

1. gas them to prevent normal ripening; trying to keep them greenish to make the trip to the grocery store.
2. I forget....
3. longevity of the veggie, and year-round tomato crops

Answer 4

it probably is ethylene, and apples give it off naturally. place unripe tomatoes near some apples and watch them turn red

Answer 5

they dont gas tomoatoes, they ripen on their own, but i know they gas apples etc to help them ripen faster.

Answer 6

i never heard of any one doing this