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Re: Why do ripe fruits -- especially when canned -- smell bad? --

by zxcvbob <zxcvbob@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jul 31, 2007 at 03:12 PM

Radium wrote:
> On Jul 27, 7:47 pm, Mark Thorson <nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Radium wrote:
>>
>>> I hate those odors. That why I like to eat apricots, peaches, and
>>> similar fruits when they are sour, hard, and greenish. When sour,
>>> hard, and greenish, most fruits smell pleasant. When they are too
>>> ripe, they become excessively sweet, grossly-soft up and turn mucus
>>> yellow; this is when they start to stink.
>>> What causes those immeasurably-foul odors?
>> A couple possibilities you haven't considered are
>> ethyl acetate and isoamyl acetate.
> 
> Oh and I have three additional chemicals to rule out:
> 
> 1. Ammonia
> 2. Urea
> 3. Sulfides and other sulfur-containing compounds
> 


Have you considered taking-up smoking?  Perhaps unfiltered cigarettes? 
They tend to change one's perception of tastes and smells.  HTH ;-)

Bob
 




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Re: Why do ripe fruits -- especially when canned -- smell bad? -
Mark Thorson <nospam@[  2007-07-27 19:47:50 
Re: Why do ripe fruits -- especially when canned -- smell bad? -
zxcvbob <zxcvbob@[EMAI  2007-07-31 15:12:22 

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