Why do apples...

[Mr. Bloom]

...taste SOOOoooo much sweeter when I refrigerate them?

Is it an illusion or is it a chemical reaction?

[7rider]

I don't know. I can't eat cold apples. They hurt my sensitive teeth.

I want to know why eating an apple on an empty stomach gives me a stomach ache.

[Tuckervill]

It does me, too!

I prefer bananas.

Karen

[OakLeaf]

Since it's well known that apples are best picked after a frost, I'd assume it's a chemical reaction, but strangely there wasn't anything in McGee's wonderful reference On Food and Cooking.

I don't like very cold food either (TCM can explain that), but you can always refrigerate your apples to get the sweetness and then let them come to room temperature before eating.

[lph]

I dunno, but I'm guessing that the cold somehow breaks down starch into sugar, like cooking makes most any vegetable sweeter.

Or did I just expose that I had no Chemistry in high school?

[Smilie]

Apples make me nauseous too, I can eat a slice, but that is all. I too want to know why. I know if I eat 'Pink Ladies' they don't give me a stomach ache, but I generally stay away from apples in general.

Bananas upset my system in a different way. With gas and bloating. Not to mention they make my teeth feel all hairy.