"They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but there's another reason to keep apples on hand. They are the special ingredient that can help ripen the rest of your fruit faster when you're in a rush to eat it. This only works with fruits that ripen off the vine, so we're sorry, but you can't use the apple trick to ripen grapes, citrus fruits, berries, or watermelon. Once those are picked, they don't get any sweeter."
"So if you're dying to eat your unripe apples, bananas, avocados, peaches, plums, pears, mangos, or tomatoes and you don't want to wait a second longer than you have to, throw them in a paper bag with an apple (or even a few apples) and seal it up. Let the fruit sit for a few days at the most, and it will be ripe and ready."
Apples and certain other fruits emit ethylene gas, which accelerates ripening in fruits that continue to ripen after picking. Placing unripe apples, bananas, avocados, peaches, plums, pears, mangos, or tomatoes in a sealed paper bag with an apple or banana concentrates ethylene and speeds ripening within a few days. Grapes, citrus fruits, berries, and watermelon do not ripen further after picking and therefore do not respond to ethylene. Covering fruit in uncooked rice can similarly trap ethylene and hasten ripening. Some heat-based methods, such as using an oven or air fryer for bananas, can also speed ripening.
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