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Default Will a mango ripen once cut?


jake wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
>
> > Jennyanniedots wrote:
> >
> >>I just cut up a mango that's about a day short of perfectly ripe. Do
> >>you think it will continue to ripen once it's cut?

> >
> >
> > Once cut up the exposed surfaces will rot at a rate much accelerated
> > from that in which any portion can continue to ripen... this is true of
> > all fruit. I would suggest once cut you eat as rapidly as possible...
> > things will never be better than from that moment. Of course you can
> > choose to preserve but preservation merely slows decomposition.
> >

> Do you think cooking the mango would make it sweeter?


No, not unless you add sweetener.