Sugar breakdown to respiration rate
GreenPod Labs Insights: Respiration rate, ripening rate, and internal biochemistry changes are interlinked. Fruit internal sugar breakdown is directly connected to the respiration rate of the fruit. As the sugar breakdown increases the fruit moves toward senescence (towards death) thus fruit goes through a bell curve on the respiration rate. To establish this interaction, we devised a method to quantify the sugar breakdown using a Starch-Iodine test and measured the corresponding respiration rate. The higher the starch content darker the color of the banana with iodine (as shown in the picture below). From our product perspective, we focus on the internal biochemistry (input/ root cause) control to control the respiration rate and ripening rate (output). #greenpodlabs #sugarbreakdown #fruit #respirationrate