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BentNotTwisted · 08-22-2003, 09:45 AM

No, this isn't a gay thread.

I am very lucky to live in an area that has many orchards nearby. It's harvest time for peaches and they are amazing. One thing I've noticed is peaches and apples are sweeter on the bottom than on the top. I haven't notice this with other fruit, but my fruit choices are pretty limited.
So, can anyone tell me why apples and peaches taste sweeter on the bottom half of the fruit than on the top half? Is fructose heavier than the rest of the 'fluids' in a fruit?

lafemmefatale · 08-22-2003, 02:28 PM

my guess is when a fruit hangs on a tree, the juices in the fruit will tend to be more concentrated at the bottom than the top due to gravity, and greater juice concentration = sweeter bottom?

However it is simply a hypothesis.

hotdogg · 08-22-2003, 03:01 PM

I never noticed this...Is this a fact, your own obsevation, has anyone else documented this?

cowlick · 08-23-2003, 12:24 PM

I have heard that squash tends to be best at the top. The theory is that the top of the squash is where the growth is. And squash gets sour, not sweet, as it ages.
Perhaps with fruit the sections that age (the bottom?) have higher sugar levels than those newer (higher up) sections?
Or perhaps I'm wrong...

themilk · 08-25-2003, 07:54 PM

my friend said that the fruit at the bottom of the TREE is the sweetest, neither she nor i could recall eatig fruit that was not uniformaly sweet, except for in the middle, where it starts to get sour.

BentNotTwisted · 08-26-2003, 06:32 AM

Ok, so maybe it's just me. "Yes, Bent, it's just you." Ok.

SaltPork · 08-28-2003, 09:43 AM

Maybe the fruit towards the top of the tree gets more sun leeching out some of the moisture and sugars, thereby making the fruit on the bottom seem sweeter than the fruit on the top of the tree.

08-22-2003, 09:45 AM	#1 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	Sweet bottomed fruit No, this isn't a gay thread. I am very lucky to live in an area that has many orchards nearby. It's harvest time for peaches and they are amazing. One thing I've noticed is peaches and apples are sweeter on the bottom than on the top. I haven't notice this with other fruit, but my fruit choices are pretty limited. So, can anyone tell me why apples and peaches taste sweeter on the bottom half of the fruit than on the top half? Is fructose heavier than the rest of the 'fluids' in a fruit? __________________ IS THAT IT ???!!! Do you even know what 'it' is? When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free

08-22-2003, 02:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
lafemmefatale Insane Location: Vancouver	my guess is when a fruit hangs on a tree, the juices in the fruit will tend to be more concentrated at the bottom than the top due to gravity, and greater juice concentration = sweeter bottom? However it is simply a hypothesis. __________________ -poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another-

08-23-2003, 12:24 PM	#4 (permalink)
cowlick Insane Location: Seattle	I have heard that squash tends to be best at the top. The theory is that the top of the squash is where the growth is. And squash gets sour, not sweet, as it ages. Perhaps with fruit the sections that age (the bottom?) have higher sugar levels than those newer (higher up) sections? Or perhaps I'm wrong... __________________ "It's a long story," says I, and let him up.

08-25-2003, 07:54 PM	#5 (permalink)
themilk Upright Location: Louisiana suburbs	my friend said that the fruit at the bottom of the TREE is the sweetest, neither she nor i could recall eatig fruit that was not uniformaly sweet, except for in the middle, where it starts to get sour. __________________ - = = = = = The Milk

08-26-2003, 06:32 AM	#6 (permalink)
BentNotTwisted Optimistic Skeptic Location: Midway between a Beehive and Centennial	Ok, so maybe it's just me. "Yes, Bent, it's just you." Ok. __________________ IS THAT IT ???!!! Do you even know what 'it' is? When the last man dies for just words that he said... We Shall Be Free

08-22-2003, 03:01 PM	#3 (permalink)
hotdogg Crazy Location: NYC Metro Area	I never noticed this...Is this a fact, your own obsevation, has anyone else documented this?

08-28-2003, 09:43 AM	#7 (permalink)
SaltPork Everything's better with bacon Location: In your local grocer's freezer.	Maybe the fruit towards the top of the tree gets more sun leeching out some of the moisture and sugars, thereby making the fruit on the bottom seem sweeter than the fruit on the top of the tree. __________________ It was like that when I got here....I swear.