Produce [generally refers to] many farm-produced crops, including fruits and vegetables. In supermarkets, it refer to the section of the store where fruit and vegetables are kept. In parts of the world, including the U.S., produce is marked with small stickers bearing price look-up codes. These four- or five-digit codes are a standardized system intended to aid checkout and inventory control at places where produce is sold.[1]
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Produce is featured in The Last Supper, and briefly mentioned in the documentary.
Documentary[]
In the Documentary, the produce is seen in 10 days after people when food starts to rot from supermarkets shelves.
The Last Supper[]
The produce would be overripe from ethylene.
In 1 week after people, power is out in cities around the world and the lights and refrigeration at grocery stores shutdown forever. In the produce section, fruits and vegetables are emitting ethylene, which causes it to ripen. When one overripe apple produces ethylene, it triggers receptors in the other apples to emit the gas. After a while, all the fruit would become overripe and quickly rot. Also joining in are fruit flies, attracted to the fermenting smell of overripen, and mold. Mold begins as airborne spores and when it fall onto damp moist food, it produce chemicals that make the food breakdown and rot.
In 3 months after people, fruits would have shriveled up. Eventually in 1 year after people, produce will almost be completely decomposed in grocery stores and some of it will disappear forever like the bananas.
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