furry fruit

[LISAB]

why are some apples and peaches a wooly texture inside. You cant tell from the skin before you buy them and they taste horrible.

[whiskygalore]

Isn't it mould?

[LISAB]

no,definitely not mould but instead of a crispy taste its soft and the only way to describe is 'wooly'. I just threw away a carton of peaches last night as they were all like this..

[moonacre]

It's because the majority of supermarket (and some lower quality greengrocer) fruit is picked unripe to give a long shelf life. Unripe fruit will often ripen after being picked - sometimes with the help of specific chemical gasses applied in the storage warehouses. Sometimes however they are just picked too unripe and they will never ripen properly. Instead of ripening to produce natural fruit sugars they produce more starch-like substances. This gives a wooly texture as you have found.

[LISAB]

thanks for that moonacre..if i bought organic fruit would that be wool-free?

[moonacre]

Organic wont help - it's the ripeness at picking that matters.