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Bananas are green when unripe.
unripe and unprepared recruits who were sent into battle as cannon fodder
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Edamame Edamame, or fresh, unripe soybeans, offer many nutritional benefits and may be a great late-night snack.
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Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Health, 30 Sep. 2024
Cooler temperatures decrease the pace of ripening. Firm, unripe, uncut avocados should be stored at room temperature (68° to 75°F), the Hass Avocado Board and Sarah Brekke, M.S., Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen brand manager agree.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2024
On a hot morning in mid-July at the community farm, a patch of lush green ringed by high-rise apartments, Oh inspected his bananas’ progress: still unripe but noticeably fatter.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
Scoring one is like winning the lottery May 7, 2024
On a hot morning in mid-July at the community farm, a patch of lush green ringed by high-rise apartments, Oh inspected his bananas’ progress: still unripe but noticeably fatter.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
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Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Health, 30 Sep. 2024
Cooler temperatures decrease the pace of ripening. Firm, unripe, uncut avocados should be stored at room temperature (68° to 75°F), the Hass Avocado Board and Sarah Brekke, M.S., Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen brand manager agree.
—Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2024
On a hot morning in mid-July at the community farm, a patch of lush green ringed by high-rise apartments, Oh inspected his bananas’ progress: still unripe but noticeably fatter.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2024
Scoring one is like winning the lottery May 7, 2024
On a hot morning in mid-July at the community farm, a patch of lush green ringed by high-rise apartments, Oh inspected his bananas’ progress: still unripe but noticeably fatter.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
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“Unripe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unripe. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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