Pick up an apple and hold it to your ear. Can you hear it breathing?
Of course you can’t. But that apple, like any other harvested fruit or nut, is breathing, taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide just as you or I do.
The harvested apple is breathing because it’s still alive. If it stops breathing, it will die and taste bad. Being alive, an apple (or any other fruit) is always changing, and the job for us fruit lovers is to bite into it during the window of peak flavor.
Two kinds of fruits
