The gas is CO--carbon monoxide. It will also turn you red as it kills you. Tomatoes treated this way are safe to eat, they just taste like crap. :mrgreen:jdupre' said:Also, they treat the tomatoes with some kind of gas (???) to make them red. I said red- not ripe. The flesh of the still- green tomato is unchanged except for the color.
Not 'zackly. When I was hauling "green garbage" they tossed cyanide or ethylene bombs into the trailers to ripen 'em.GoodOlBoy said:I realize this is a rehash of this older post but I had to get my 2 cents in. The way they warehouse ripen tomatos these days is to back up the diesel trucks to the warehouse doors, run a pipe from the exhaust under the door, and close the doors. In 15-20 minutes you have red tomatos..... uhm yeah that's why we grow our own.
Richard