Experiment: Which Fruit Decomposes The Fastest

One day I noticed that the bananas in my kitchen were always turning brown quickly. I wondered which fruit decomposes the fastest. Id ecided to compare a banana, pear, apple, strawberry, and orange. I gathered my materials: 1 of each fruit, 5 see-through disposable plastic containers, and my camera (so I could take pictures of the fruits). My hypothesis was that the strawberry would rot first, followed by the banana, then the pear, and then the apple. I didn’t think the orange would even rot at all. I thought the strawberry would decompose the fastest because it doesn’t have a thick skin surrounding it to protect it, like the other fruits do. I know from experience that bananas rot quickly. Then the pear and the apple because they have a thick skin, and the orange will probably not
On the fourth day, the apple and pear were a little darker on the cut part, and the banana had become completely brown, inside and out. The strawberry and orange were the same as the day before. On day five, the strawberry flattened and white, fluffy, stringy mold overtook it. Its juice was inside the container. All the other fruits looked the same. The banana and strawberry did not change much on the sixth day, but the orange finally had a little bit of white mold growing on its peel. The pear and the apple were a little browner than before. At the end of the week, I found that the entire banana was black. The apple and pear skins browned a little, and everything else was the same. The answer to my original question is a banana rots the fastest out of the other fruits in a sealed container. My hypothesis was incorrect, because I predicted that the strawberry would decompose first, but it was actually the banana that did. If I were to complete this experiment again, I would not put the fruit in containers, so that they would be exposed to fresh air the whole time, like they are in a real