Could cross mingling foods cause fruit to decay?

[jennifer_bloom]

I had two cartons of kiwi in my fridge and everything looked and tasted normal and then we put some avocados in the fridge and some cold peanuts and in less than 4 days all our kiwi became wrinkly. I ate 4 in one day cause I thought it was on the verge of going bad.

[purplepoppy]

Yes. Ripe fruit gives off methane and that speeds up the ripening of other fruits.