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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

Check out the lighting in the produce aisle.  It is tinted to make fruits 
look less
green.  If you want to see truer color of a fruit, take it into different 
light (if
the store will allow it.)


--- mauch1 wrote:

>  > "...That means at the first sign of that yellowish/red tint, they are 
> ready to
pick to be shipped."
>  
> I think this is part of the problem in that since the public associates 
> 'redness'
with 'ripeness' all the newest peaches and nectarines are being selected for 
being
redder and redder.  So I think the peaches/nectarines are being picked even 
earlier
than 
> they used to as they are now 'probably' redder sooner.
>  
> Years ago, on one of our local news stations, they used to have a segment 
> with

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