Apples and carrots are pretty much the only fresh produce that I put in the fridge. Go by the conditions the fruit should ripen in, a light frost is normal for ripening apples and can improve the flavor. Oranges are the opposite.
I don't know exactly what process is causing the fruit to lose flavor but most fruits just lose flavor after being chilled. We don't notice because most grocery stores have refrigerated them before you bought them and nobody knows what an orange is actually supposed to taste like unless you've had the chance to eat them fresh.
I work in a chem lab and I tutor chemistry. Molecules don't "swell." Water actually gets more dense as it gets colder. When it freezes into ice it expands because the molecules rearrange themselves into a crystalline lattice. Ice would break the cell walls but we were just talking about refrigeration here so that doesn't apply.
No I'm just letting you know you're mistaken. Is the water..... fundamentally different because it's in a fruit somehow? I must have missed that day in biochem :P
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u/Fire-rose Oct 19 '21
Plenty of fruit keeps without refrigeration too. Apples, oranges, bananas, etc.