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How do you know specific fruits and vegetables are unconsummable?

Asked by Unbroken (10746points) February 28th, 2013

This seems to be the year of questionable produce. In light of that and to prevent unnecessary tossage I thought I would enlist the more experienced brains on this.

For instance I usually throw away avocados when I open them up and they are significantly shot threw with black lines. But if I were to open it up and leave it it would brown. If I covered it with lemon or citrus it would be perfectly fine. So is there something unhealthy about the color brown.

Banana’s I would toss in the freezer for various recipes so part of me wonders if this ok. But then I realize the acidity of a banana changes as it overripens, what are some of the other changes taking place?

If I open an apple and there were brown spots on it, I would trim the spots off. But if I cut an apple, didn’t eat it right away and had it in a bag in the fridge I would just eat the brown.

Mangos are another bag of questions. There are many other examples I didn’t include. Feel free to address these.

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