Why do apples turn brown after we cut them?

Moment of Um

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever put a bag of delicious crunchy apple slices in your backpack, only to discover they’ve turned brown by lunchtime? What’s up with that? We asked fruit tree expert and Washington State University associate professor Lee Kalcsits to help us find the answer.

Got a question that’s apple-solutely awesome? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll help color in the answer!

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:04.3	Answering those questions that make you go,
0:09.0	agh. Um, um, um, um, um, um, um,
0:13.0	moment, uh, uh,
0:14.0	uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:15.0	uh, uh, moment of um,
0:18.0	uh, uh, Moment ofum comes to you from 8 p.m. studios. I'm
0:25.0	come to you from 8 p.m. studios. I'm Sebastian Finch Fletcher and I'm a very famous chef.
0:33.0	I don't know if you know this, but I'm a really big deal in the food world.
0:43.1	Gordon Ramsey once called me,
0:45.8	A guy I think I met once in an elevator.
0:49.6	And Julia Child, the Julia Child, once said of me, huh, never heard of him, but he's got a great name.
1:00.0	Thank you, Julia, I do have a great name. Anyway, I just opened a new restaurant called
1:07.6	Don't Apple My Leg. Get it? Apple, my leg?
1:13.0	It's a brilliant name dreamed up by a brilliant chef.
1:17.0	Me.
1:18.0	And this new restaurant is truly groundbreaking.
1:22.0	All the dishes are made of apples. is truly groundbreaking.
1:22.8	All the dishes are made of apples and all the waiters tell jokes.
1:28.2	They're pulling everyone's legs constantly.
1:31.4	It's hilarious.
1:33.0	As a famous celebrity chef, my specialty is serving raw fruits and vegetables.
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