Do not store avocados and apples next to bananas or kiwis

Avocados better not to store next to bananas or kiwis

Those who want to eat a healthy diet should focus on vegetable diet. Experts recommend consuming five to ten servings of fruits and vegetables per day. To keep fruits fresh, it is important to store them properly. For example, apples and avocados should not be kept together with bananas and kiwis.

Avocados ripen faster

Just a few years ago, many people knew avocados only from holidays in distant lands. Meanwhile, the fruits are found in almost every German supermarket. However, the popular superfruit is often too hard to buy. Experts therefore point out how to get the avocado ripe faster: by wrapping it in paper together with an apple and then storing the packet at room temperature. But avocados and apples should not be kept with other fruits.

Fruit is healthy and should be on the menu every day.
However, it is not advisable to store all fruits together. Some fruits can make others spoil faster. (Image: Alexander Raths / fotolia.com)

Prevent premature spoiling

According to the initiative "Too Good for the Ton!" Of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), each German citizen casts an average of 82 kilograms of food per year - 44 per cent of which is fruit and vegetables.

"The sensitive fruits need to be stored carefully to prevent premature spoilage," the experts write in a statement.

Some varieties ensure in the fruit bowl that the neighboring place rots faster. This has to do with the maturing gas ethylene.

Store fruits and vegetables properly

Certain types of fruit such as avocados, apples, pears and apricots release the gas ethylene as they mature. This "ensures that fruits in the environment ripen prematurely and accordingly rot faster," it says in the message.

Such fruits should therefore not be stored in the fruit bowl next to the usually fully ripe bananas, kiwis and mangoes.

Tomatoes should not be kept too close to other fruits and vegetables for this reason.

The vegetable compartment of the refrigerator is a good storage place for many types of fruit. Besides apples, you can also keep berries, apricots, grapes and cherries fresh longer. (Ad)