Here are a few tips on how to enhance your fresh fruit experience. If you have one or two pieces of ripe fruit, place it in the bowl with the unripe fruit. Bananas and apples (any variety other than Fuji or Granny Smith) work best. Fill the bowl half way or more to increase ripening speed.

If you wash your fruit beforehand, dry it with a paper towel

before ripening.

Select fruit at various stages of maturity. That way you'll have a

few pieces of ripe fruit each day.

Some fruit, such as mangos and bananas, taste best if you don't

refrigerate it. If you don't plan to eat these kinds of fruits soon,

place the fruit on the platter top until you're ready to ripen it in

the bowl.

Make sure fruit is dry before ripening.

Wash fruit before eating.

Keep ripener out of direct sunlight.

Do not ripen bruised fruit. Bruised fruit only gets worse in the

ripener and affects the taste of the other fruit.
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