an unripe green fruit changes colour when it ripen why
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Colourful chemicals in ripening fruit help to preserve it and signal to animals that they are ready to eat. Unripe fruits are green because of chlorophyll in their cells. As they ripen, the chlorophyll breaks down and is replaced by orange carotenoids and red anthocyanins.
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