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Why is it that sometimes you can make a great
salad from the produce
you bought last week; and other times the stuff won't
last 3 days? That
vibrant, crisp, juicy lettuce, cucumber and tomato that
made such a great
salad last night are wilted, limp and shriveled
tonight. Instead of a fresh
salad you have an unappealing bin of early onset
compost. Produce goes bad too
quickly!
NEW! EGGman BLOG
The reason is found... in what else... is in your
refrigerator!
The answer to this puzzle is most likely in what else
is in your fridge.
Many fruits and vegetables, especially if they have
been damaged, give
off ethylene gas as they ripen. Much of the produce in
your refrigerator
is sensitive to the presence of even very low levels of
ethylene gas. The
refrigerator acts as a trap for the ethylene gas given
off by the generating
varieties, allowing it to build up to damaging levels.
Although not
hazardous to humans, the ethylene gas leads to the
early aging
and rotting of your produce.
Ethylene Gas Guardian to the rescue!
The easiest way to save the costs of prematurely aged
produce is
to declare your refrigerator an ethylene gas free zone.
Just drop an
E.G.G. in each produce bin to preserve the freshness of
your produce.
By keeping the Ethylene Gas Guardian on duty in your
refrigerator, you
are assured a very low presence of ethylene regardless
of what produce
you are storing. You eliminate premature aging! The
crisp vitality of your
vegetables will keep your family eating more produce
and may help
eliminate premature aging there, too.
  
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There is a fascinating
research paper in the
October Townsend
Letter
on the relationship
between ethylene control
and bacteria growth
in produce. Not only does
the E.G.G. preserve
nutrition, taste and texture,
it may also protect us from
bacteria induced illness.
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For commercial applications - packers, shippers,
warehouses, and retail storage, your best source
for ethylene control is Ethylene Control, Inc.
They have engineered solutions for applications ranging
from cold rooms,
to shipping containers, to walk in coolers.
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