The Amphiphilic Liquid Coating That Keeps Your Avocados Fresh
Consider the rotten strawberry. Sitting there in your fridge, it suffers a cascading trifecta of maladies: For one, it dehydrates. Two, oxygen seeps in. And three, with the berry thus weakened, mold invades. Eventually, the strawberry turns to goop, a messy reminder of our own mortality. Rotting produce is an inevitability\u2014I for one wouldn\u2019t trust fruit that lasts forever\u2014but that doesn\u2019t mean we have to give in to the forces of decay so quickly.