"It's a ripeness issue," one of the reporters told me.
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Color is not a very accurate way to gauge ripeness.
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Our eyes help us find our favored ripeness and sweetness.
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And, as ripeness theory would predict, this seems to matter.
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Kothari emphasized the ripeness of this product in particular for commercialization.
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"There's nothing better than that true peak of ripeness," Barber said.
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The space holds several thousand avocados at various stages of ripeness.
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There are likely more scientific ways to determine the ripeness of an avocado, like, for instance, Calvalo's method of using sound waves to determine the density and ripeness of avocados for retail and other big buyers.
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"The expectation of ripeness has to be a lot lower," he said.
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Strawberries growing outdoors in various states of ripeness present seemingly infinite variations.
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Her paintings evoke fecundity and ripeness — they literally and figuratively brim over.
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But each bottle seemed to adhere to a different definition of ripeness.
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Half its potency lies in its reek, suggesting simultaneous ripeness and rot.
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There's a thrill watching and waiting as a vegetable matures to ripeness.
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To make sure everyone is on the same page, they refer to a ripeness chart, where shades of ripeness are numbered from one to seven — one being flag-of-Brazil green and seven a buttery yellow, with brown spots.
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The tomatoes are at perfect ripeness; a little acid, a lot of umami.
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Do not touch any banana that is starting to show too much ripeness.
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The money it all requires to survive, like ripeness, simply falls from the air.
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Avocado Ripeness Test Think of the all the underripe avocados that will be saved!
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It's hard for me to pick before complete ripeness, and 2006 was just heavy.
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"We're in the raggedy edge of the perception of ripeness in cabernet," Mr. Patterson said.
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"I reckon there is great ripeness and a high probability this will happen," he said.
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You get a decoupling of the ripeness clocks as they are developing in the fruit.
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Jordan Cronenweth's magic-hour cinematography distills the golden California sunlight into an atmosphere of malign ripeness.
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We rejected wines that had lost the tension between ripeness and acidity, showing sweet and candied flavors.
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Scientists at Cornell University developed a robotic hand with waveguides as "nerves" to sense ripeness of tomatoes.
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"It's not the same parameters as in Champagne, and not the same ripeness levels," Mr. Holland said.
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We found plenty of well-modulated bottles despite the ripeness of the grapes in the 20163 vintage.
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"I don't think we will get dismissed on ripeness because people are being harmed now," he said.
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Cassis and blackberry flavors, with a hint of herbs and a plush texture highlight a sunny ripeness.
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Acidification is permitted in California and many other warm regions where ripeness can result in acid deficiency.
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The shroud plants were also found to have been harvested when they had hit peak THC-laden ripeness.
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"He was like a medieval king who was testing the ripeness of a piece of fruit," she said.
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Cora and I broke camp on Day 3 and climbed back into the hot car, nearing peak ripeness.
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Others, such as Agrobot, have developed robots that use real-time artificial intelligence to determine the ripeness of strawberries.
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It tastes of peak ripeness, of juices that can't wait to run, of it-couldn't-get-better-than-this.
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Each of the three bottles I suggested, from the 2015 vintage, seemed to exhibit a different degree of ripeness.
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I like that they're biodegradable, and they have just enough scent to mask any ripeness brewing in my armpits.
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And we're not talking cutesy oblong flair for decorating your computers and notebooks, we're talking stickers that discern ripeness levels.
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Instead of engaging on the merits of the constitutional issue, Judge Brinkema framed her ruling as a matter of ripeness.
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Both of these wines carry the designation "federspiel," an indication of the ripeness level at which the grapes were harvested.
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Wine School To hear the wine marketers tell it, every estate picks its grapes at the point of perfect ripeness.
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And the law's constitutionality, he argued, is too grave a question to be decided in a case with ripeness flaws.
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The company's first agricultural robot, dubbed the Virgo 1, can pick tomatoes without bruising them, and detect ripeness better than humans.
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I've gotten into several heated conversations about optimal ripeness level — so I decided to investigate this and call up some scientists.
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But the Solicitor General seems to me to have the stronger position on the case's mootness, or, at least, its ripeness.
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Holly I. in San Antonio Dear Heloise: I buy my bananas in varying degrees of ripeness, to last throughout the week.
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Designed to carry out its tasks autonomously, the Agrobot uses real-time artificial intelligence (AI) to determine the ripeness of fruit.
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But Redditors were quick to point out that ripeness should only be determined by the firmness of the fruit, not the color.
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When Daniel Eddy of Rebelle came to visit our rooftop garden, some of our produce wasn't at its optimum state of ripeness.
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While I seized on these three wines for the opportunity they offered to talk about ripeness, other factors also play a role.
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You can't touch or smell the produce for ripeness, and you can't just get "whatever looks best," as my mom would say.
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At Radnor, the beauty-berries were gleaming in all their purple ripeness, and the asters and the snakeroots were still in bloom.
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He provides avocados at several levels of ripeness, from firm (a foil for crabmeat in a California roll) to creamy (for mashing).
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Frozen fruits "are commercially picked at the peak of ripeness and then individually quick frozen and packaged under a nitrogen atmosphere," Lester said.
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The photo (pictured above) depicts the time-saving sticker in all it's glory, including a three-tier chart with colored ripeness levels (i.e.
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Eventually the jelled milk proteins become a tightly knit mass that is thicker than a wheel of triple-cream cheese, collapsing with ripeness.
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Producers like Zind Humbrecht and Domaine Marcel Deiss, who work organically and biodynamically, were loath to pick grapes before they achieved absolute ripeness.
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It is using machine learning to measure the ripeness of a peach and to determine how many blue shirts to stock in which size.
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Yet again you've filled all fruit with ripeness to the core—you've swollen the gourd, and plumped the hazel shells with a sweet kernel.
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Color changes in leaves, fruits and vegetables can indicate age or ripeness and even offer a warning that something may be poisonous or rotten.
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Over time, Olivier Humbrecht, whose family owns Zind Humbrecht, adjusted his viticulture so that ripeness could be achieved with less sugar in the grapes.
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In lieu of ripeness, seed heads throughout the gardens present an eerie, ossified architecture: tight-mouthed trumpets of Iris sibirica, alliums like exploding stars.
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Rather than following fads, the important distinctions these days among the wines were in interpretations of ripeness, a producer's preferred style and in terroir.
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The tomatoes have never had the bitterness bred out of them, she said, making them especially complex, with a snappy acidity in their ripeness.
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Despite what you'd think some varieties are actually better in the winter, she says, because this is the time when they're at their peak ripeness.
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Beyond the location of the fruit, Root AI uses other, proprietary, vision processing techniques to measure properties of fruit (like ripeness, size, and quality grading).
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It eliminates the guess work when it comes to ripeness and any challenges if you are not familiar with peeling and seeding a fresh avocado.
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Tropical fruits may convey a high level of ripeness when the grapes were harvested, while apples indicate a tartness that may come from lively acidity.
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Using photographs, its software is able to assess a range of information about a food item ranging from its ripeness to the presence of contamination.
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Unlike a dress, they do not need to be tried on for size, and unlike a peach they do not need to be felt for ripeness.
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"A lot of chefs pick the mushroom that looks the best aesthetically, with no real thought as to where it is in its ripeness," Leboe says.
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Each of these grüners had a slight vegetal quality that was welcome and delightfully refreshing, like the snap of a crisp green bean at peak ripeness.
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On first scope, Maroilles looks like a fucked up tropical Starburst—a pudgy square of smeared psychedelic orange, nearly bursting at its seams in peak ripeness.
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It eliminates the guess work [sic] when it comes to ripeness and any challenges if you are not familiar with peeling and seeding a fresh avocado.
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They have created a literature full of mirages and (actual) sinkholes, poised on the hazy borders between man and nature, ripeness and rot, tragedy and gag.
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Purée melon in food processor and add simple syrup and lemon juice to taste (using more, or less, "based on ripeness of melon," recommends Sarafpour). 33.
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The most fastidious monitoring of increasingly fickle ripeness doesn't insulate vintners from the added specter of pests, disease, and drought—all symptoms of prolonged warming patterns.
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But for the sake of research, I ate nonis in various stages of ripeness, and even procured and sampled a noni juice from San José's central market.
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The stickers' colors do not change, but are meant to serve as a match with the avocados' skin to indicate their stage of ripeness to the buyer.
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Just as no perfect moment exists to open a bottle, and no optimum length exists for aging a wine, no particular set of conditions defines perfect ripeness.
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Regions that were known for extracting as much ripeness, power and fruitiness as possible in making their red wines were pulling back in the direction of harmony.
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I learned this little hack from a Funbag reader years and years ago and I still deploy it, especially when the ripeness of the banana is iffy.
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Now, new fruit stickers from Freshmax in New Zealand have arrived to help produce amateurs determine an avocado's ripeness based on where its color falls on the spectrum.
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"We look at the trichomes, the ripeness, the flush factor, the cola structures, the style, and the stigma," he said, referring to various biological features of the plant.
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I was thinking about ripeness over the last few weeks as we tasted several examples of Rosso di Montalcino, the younger sibling of the renowned Brunello di Montalcino.
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In order to achieve ripeness in the colder English climate, the vines need to be planted less densely than in France, Mr. Holland said, to minimize the competition.
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Avocados with an edible coating sprayed onto their skins to preserve the window of ripeness and reduce food waste will be on sale in Europe from this week.
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But my doubts were no match for Greg Proechel's beef rib, dry-aged to a cheeselike ripeness and carved into slices to show off different facets of beef.
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You take in a lot of information just from physical feedback in your hands, whether you're checking a fruit for ripeness or seeing if a door handle will turn.
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Even more intriguingly, the researchers say that silencing the gene for that enzyme doesn't appear to have an impact on other signs of tomato ripeness, like color or taste.
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From establishing ripeness levels, to speeding up the ripening process in a pinch, and even proper slicing techniques, we've got them all (plus a few more) covered below. 1.
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Vegetables sold at a farmers' market are hopefully picked at peak ripeness too, and may be held briefly in refrigerated storage and available for purchase the next morning, according to Lester.
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They taught me about seasons, vegetable varieties, sugar content, and that you could knock on a watermelon all you pleased, but the mark of ripeness was the big, pale, dirty spot.
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This assurance comes from the same group that thinks prisoners or welfare recipients or American citizens should be dispatched to the fields to harvest crops during the short window of ripeness.
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"So much is available here that I often forget exactly what is best during what season," she said as she checked the ripeness of a green Errezil apple, a local variety.
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Ripeness is all: When the berries run out, they run out, because the Geans would rather send a customer home empty-handed than with a berry that doesn't meet their standards.
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Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law says the lawsuits are premature given the step-by-step nature of the various funding mechanisms and procedural concerns involving standing and ripeness.
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Silicon Valley-based ImpactVision, a seed-funded startup backed by Campbell Soup VC arm Acre Venture Partners, wants to employ hyper-spectral imaging to perceive information about contamination, food quality and ripeness.
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Theoretically, at least, this combination of altitude and soil can help to preserve acidity in the grapes, allowing the region to make wines that match ripeness with freshness, which gives them tension.
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Didier Barral, the vigneron, did an excellent job of balancing ripeness and spicy red fruit flavors with acidity in this cuvée of 50 percent carignan, 30 percent grenache and 20 percent cinsault.
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None of technical solutions seemed to account for how a cook might consider the ripeness of a pear, or thrill from creating a new recipe out of a pile of fresh chanterelles.
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The Knoll, from the Kreutles vineyard, was labeled "federspiel," a designation indicating that the grapes had been picked at a medium level of ripeness, as opposed to the very ripe designation of smaragd.
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The best news about "Florence Foster Jenkins" is that, just when admirers of Hugh Grant were asking if the poor guy would ever get a role of any ripeness, he plucks a peach.
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In the language of imagination, fertility seems associated with wetness and ripeness; does the supposed drying of the uterus, the loss of brushable hair, or the medicalization of the body mean the loss of womanhood?
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Walmart educates its personal shoppers on banana ripeness, for example, so that customers who want their bananas hard and gleaming yellow get just that while those who want a sweeter, brown-speckled banana get that.
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Hull had seemingly fallen victim to the expectations of the unstoppable progress and development of modernity, its noticeably decaying infrastructure suggested this at the same time it belied a social, cultural, and economic over-ripeness.
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Joly, to a greater extreme than many other producers, chases ripeness in the grapes until some shrivel and are afflicted with botrytis, the legendary noble rot prized for how it enhances sweet wines like Sauternes.
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While its website boasted that Juicero would "source organic produce within days of harvest" as recently as February of this year, those assertions have been walked back significantly to instead lean into ideas like seasonality and ripeness.
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"If you pick vegetables at their ripeness peak, they've got their greatest abundance of nutrients, vitamins and minerals -- and that can be anywhere between 10% and 50% more than something that is commercially harvested as fresh," Lester said.
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To that end, a company called Apeel says it has formulated a coating that doubles the ripeness window of avocados, which it deployed in Costco this week (citrus and asparagus suppliers have also been using Apeel's coatings). How?
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It "helps you get in the habit of eating fresh food at the peak of ripeness and flavor," says food blogger Tess Masters, also known as the Blender Girl and author of the forthcoming cookbook, The Perfect Blend.
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But Smarterware is not capable of telling whether or not your food is no longer delicious, which means if you buy under-ripe fruit, Ovie could show it as being rotten right as it gets to peak ripeness.
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Now, let's recall that life in the kitchen leads to pleasure at the table, but it's not as if all we're going to talk about when we eat is the quality of the olive oil or ripeness of the peaches.
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In fact, a study from the University of California-Davis in partnership with the Frozen Food Foundation found that frozen fruits and vegetables are just as healthy – and sometimes more nutritious – than their fresh-stored counterparts because they are picked and frozen at peak ripeness.
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The characters laze and roast beneath the sun, glowing like peaches in the heat, yet ripeness is not all; it has to contend with harshness, and you wince when a woman lies down near the sea, her bare flesh bedded on the coral-rough rocks.
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Vegetables intended to be commercially frozen are also picked at peak ripeness, but unlike fruit, they are blanched prior to freezing, where they are exposed to hot water temperatures between and 90 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit, which destroys enzymes that cause discoloration, browning, and loss of flavor.
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But more than that, we sensed that producers in Languedoc, as has happened in much of the world over the last decade, have backed away from pushing the boundaries of ripeness in the vineyard and wringing out the last measures of fruit and power in the winery.
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Only now has it Occurred to us to talk about or of it at this length, the lemons—three of them— Proceeding in an anticlockwise swirl from pale lemon to a darker yellow To an almost orange, tinged with green—degrees, we speculate, of ripeness Or decay.
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"One year might yield no rain whatsoever, while another might see no sun, meaning there's absolutely nothing you can do to keep your vines at a decent level of ripeness," one wrote, adding that one could be "completely bankrupt" within three gameplay years, all because the weather didn't cooperate.
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The good news is, like fruit, veggies intended to be frozen are typically picked at their peak ripeness, where they are most nutrient dense, as compared to produce intended to be sold fresh, which are picked at a less mature, less nutrient-dense stage in order to last longer during transport and storage.
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At first, it will sell seeds for the Badger Flame; three varieties of squash (including one that announces its ripeness on the vine by changing from dark green to a rusty orange); a small, creamy potato; a pleasingly bitter cucumber; and a floral-tasting habanero pepper without even a pinprick of heat.
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If you prefer less costly bottles, consider a Pouilly-Fuissé or St.-Véran, chardonnays from the Mâconnais, or some other types of wine with sufficient amplitude, like godello from Spain, Savennières from the Loire Valley, or maybe even a grüner veltliner from the Wachau labeled smaragd, an indication that the grapes were picked at peak ripeness.
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Daily Harvest founder Rachel Drori claims its farm-freezing technique — in which it freezes organic produce that has been picked at peak ripeness and frozen within hours right at the farm — locks in nutrients far better than the conventional method of picking produce while still green and letting it ripen in transit or on store shelves.
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"The image [of the cherry] is based on an idea of ripeness—and thus the virginity tends to be seen as something that, sooner or later, is due to be lost," distinguished slang lexicographer Jonathon Green writes in Green's Dictionary of Slang, in which he also traces the origins of virgins "losing" their cherry, or getting it "popped" or "busted," to the early 1900s.
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Krasinski has spent a sizable percentage of his time onscreen on the verge of marriage (License to Wed, It's Complicated) or on the verge of becoming a father (Away We Go, The Hollars), and always as the good guy — the kind who might still have some growing up to do but whose solidity is so evident you could sound it out by thumping his chest as if you were testing a melon for ripeness.
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David B. Cruz, an expert in LGBT law and constitutional law at the USC Gould School of Law, says that the biggest challenge the lawsuit will face in court is passing the "ripeness doctrine," a term used to describe how courts determine if an issue is "ripe" or ready for judicial review — in this case, by considering the potential harm to the women if they were to decline to decide on the claim.
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