It is essential and important that you master the technique
of choosing fruits that are safe from hazardous toxic substances often used to
ripen them by fruit entrepreneurs so that you may stay away from cancer and
damaged organs.
Healthy living, if not embraced, can affect you and your
family health up to the third generation. From quick study and sampling, here
is a list of fruits you must eat but be cautious when purchasing.
Bananas
Mood saving fruits like bananas are loved by many.
Naturally, ripened bananas have brown cream dots on their covers. The stalk is
yellow and has that pleasant yellow color with the sweet banana smell.
Calcium carbide ripened bananas have orange-yellow color;
the stalk remains green despite the fruit being ripe and is hard on touch.
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Avocados
This is our favorite antioxidant-rich fruit that, when
ripened naturally, the black covered ones have a small pimple-like inflammation
all over and are soft when ripe. When cut, the inner part can stay for at least
five minutes before turning black.
When calcium carbide is used in these fruits, their cover is
usually flawless, and hard parches or lumps are felt when examined on hands.
Pawpaw
The papein in pawpaw gets everyone excited when eating as it
keeps reminding one that you are taking a step away from cancer. Naturally,
pawpaw would have the far end tips ripe last therefore would be hard on touch.
Calcium carbide makes the whole pawpaw ripe uniformly with
an extreme yellow color that, when observed, should scare you away, though it
attracts uninformed individuals.
Tomatoes
Almost all Kenyan meals have tomato ingredients in it, a
very encouraging habit as far as nutrition is concerned. A naturally ripened
tomato will have the stalk part ripe and soft.
Using calcium carbide on the ripened tomato will be soft
throughout except for the stalk part centrally placed and run deep inside the
tomato that will remain green and hard.
Mango
The Kenyan delicacy consumed abundantly in fresh fruit juice
form and wholly as a fruit. Naturally, ripened mangoes have small doted spots
on the cover and are soft throughout the fruits.
Artificially ripened mangoes have some parts hard, and the
extreme ends show different color from the rest of the mango fruit.
