{"id":216,"date":"2006-08-04T01:30:57","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T01:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fruitsinfo.com\/fruit-facts\/?p=216"},"modified":"2006-08-04T01:30:57","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T01:30:57","slug":"sticker-would-tell-the-ripeness-of-fruits-and-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fruitsinfo.com\/fruit-facts\/2006\/08\/sticker-would-tell-the-ripeness-of-fruits-and-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Sticker would tell the ripeness of fruits and vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz. wasting money on bad fruit could become a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>A University of Arizona professor has invented a sticker that could tell consumers if a fruit or vegetable is ripe. That means no more waiting for avocados to season or throwing out fuzzy peaches.<\/p>\n<p>The stickers would be available to growers next year and must make their way into supermarkets within two to three years, said Mark Riley, who is a UA assistant professor of agricultural and bio-systems engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUCSON, Ariz. wasting money on bad fruit could become a thing of the past. A University of Arizona professor has invented a sticker that could tell consumers if a fruit or vegetable is ripe. That means no more waiting for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fruitsinfo.com\/fruit-facts\/2006\/08\/sticker-would-tell-the-ripeness-of-fruits-and-vegetables\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[14,25,33,152,62],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distinct-feature-of-fruits","category-fruit-facts","tag-aggregate-fruits","tag-compound-fruits","tag-fresh-fruits","tag-fruit-facts","tag-fruits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitsinfo.com\/fruit-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitsinfo.com\/fruit-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitsinfo.com\/fruit-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitsinfo.com\/fruit-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitsinfo.com\/fruit-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitsinfo.com\/fruit-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitsinfo.com\/fruit-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitsinfo.com\/fruit-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitsinfo.com\/fruit-facts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}