If you happen to like our videos and have a few bucks to spare to support our efforts, check out our P→’s going on internally while the fruit is ripening and second looking at why these plants have evolved to do this at all, especially considering it’s seemingly a massive waste of the plant’s energy and resources to produce fruit of any color around its seeds. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/07/fruits-change-color-flavor-ripen/ Sources: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC549760/ https://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/n/nwheelwr/pdf/ColorsofFruit.pdf https://books.google.com/books?id=FWc3zDq9P10C&pg=PA365&lpg=PA365&dq=fruits+change+color+ripe+to+disperse+seeds&source=bl&ots=Yw6ihfxduo&sig=NBnlX0ZlESoxudZj0d3NMUX2KhI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BLaeVKijFIHsgwSfrYDADg&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=fruits%20change%20color%20ripe%20to%20disperse%20seeds&f=false http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frugivore http://www.biokids.umich.edu/guides/tracks_and_sign/leavebehind/scat/ http://www.mbgnet.net/bioplants/seed.html http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/40428/1/Herrera.2002.Herrera.&.Pellmyr.pdf http://www.rc.unesp.br/ib/ecologia/labic2012/Mauro%20pdf/Galetti%20papers%20pdf/Galetti_chapt.12_2002.pdf http://imedea.uib-csic.es/bc/ecol_terr/all%20pdfs/2008_Traveset_et_al_Ecology.pdf http://intobiology.org.uk/colour-changes-during-ripening/ http://www.rosincerate.com/2015/07/colour-changing-fruits-and-veggies.html http://www.edathlon.com/science_projects/cooking_with_color.htm https://www.stem.org.uk/elibrary/resource/31548 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/origin-of-fruit-ripening/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrolase http://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2012/03/08/fruit-and-veges-change-skin-colour-experts-respond/ http://humantouchofchemistry.com/why-does-red-cabbage-change-colour-when-cooked.htm http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/09/why-leaves-change-color-in-the-fall/ http://postharvest.tfrec.wsu.edu/pages/