On a hot morning in mid-July at the community farm, a patch of lush green ringed by high-rise apartments, Oh inspected his bananas’ progress: still unripe but noticeably fatter.

Some Chinese consumers have complained that durians are arriving unripe.

"It was unripe — there was no action by the EPA that Louisiana could challenge," said Kron.

Verjus is a slightly sweet and acidic drink made from young, unripe grapes, also used in cooking.

They scrape out the flesh of the unripe fruit and squeeze the pulp in a rolled leaf to extract a milky white juice.