EFFECT OF STORAGE ON COMPOSITION. 



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TABLE XIV. Composition of peaches stored in a refrigerator for eight days from the date 

 of the hardening of the stone. 



[Basis of grams per peach.] 

 COMPOSITION OF WHOLE FRUIT. 



ANALYSIS OF FLESH. 



a Variety not definitely determined. 



b Assumed that this constituent did not change in storage. 



In the study of the ripening of the apple the writers called atten- 

 tion to the fact that the green apple had a tendency to mature much 

 more rapidly than the ripe fruit. Even when the very green fruit 

 was placed in storage it was noted that the starch disappeared much 

 more rapidly with the correspondingly rapid hydrolysis into sugars 

 than in the ase of the ripe fruit, and in general the less mature the 

 fruit the more rapid was the ripening. A little attention was given 

 to this problem in the work on peaches, but the analyses seem to indi- 



