Garden experts recommend picking tomatoes just before they turn completely red to avoid splitting, pests and other quality ...

A hard avocado? A mushy watermelon? That doesn't have to be the case. Here's how to tell when fruit is perfectly ripe and the perfect moment for that first bite has arrived.

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As fruits ripen, their color can change, with green fruits often transitioning to other colors such as yellow, red, purple, or brown, depending on the fruit type.

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Immature tomatoes, if they ripen at all, ripen much slower than mature green tomatoes and usually shrivel in the ripening process. This results in poorly colored fruits with poor taste and texture.

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Generally speaking, ripe fruit is fragrant, and as emphatically the colour it’s supposed to be as possible. Beyond that, there are techniques and strategies for specific crops.