Natural of preventing fruit from rotting!

[Rubyrose]

A guy at my work is saying there is a natural way you can stop fruit in the fruit bowl from rotting and thats by putting something in the bowl like Lime! I think he is making it up but now I want to know... Has anyone ever heard of this? He said it may not be a Lime but its another fruit and it naturally stops the fruit in the bowl from Rotting.

[BBWCHATT]

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timest opics/organizations/a/agriculture_department/i ndex.html?query=FUNGI&field=des&match=exact

Patents; Natural Yeast Fungi To Prevent Rotted Fruit
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Two researchers, one with the United States Agriculture Department and one in Israel, have patented a way to prevent fruit from rotting shortly after harvest by using naturally occurring yeast fungi. If the fungi prove safe and effective in more extensive testing, they could give the produce industry an alternative to the synthetic fungicides now used to prevent post-harvest rot. The advantage of the fungi is that they already breed on the surface of citrus fruits.

[Gef]

He's wrong.

[Siamsal]

It's often said you are supposed to keep bananas away from other fruit, as they make the fruit ripen (and then rot) faster.

I don't know whether that's really true, though!

[Rubyrose]

Interesting Gef coz I was thinking the same thing!

BBWCHATT said that its Citrus fruits that do it but we have oranges in the fruit bowl! Does that not count?