Is there anything I could do to try to keep them yellow for as long as I possibly can.
Because they often get a lot of brown speckles.
2007-09-17 10:56:12 · 11 answers · asked by Leila 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Would it help to keep them in the grocery bag?
2007-09-17 11:02:46 · update #1
I live in the tropics and often buy my fruit from the local growers along side the roads. They sell melons, several kinds of bananas, papayas and mangoes, plus coconuts. They all ask what day I want my bananas for. Today, tomorrow, the next day. They are natural, so it must be the heat. I'd store them in a cool dark spot open to the air. and look up recipes for banana nut bread, banana smoothies, banana cream pie, etc. Did you know that you can bury your old black soft bananas, skin and all, at the base of your rose bushes and experience a burst of growth?
2007-09-22 14:34:56 · answer #1 · answered by Davey 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually if you put them in the fridge the skin will turn black but the banana itself will stay good longer. When you keep it out of the fridge the inside ripens faster and becomes mushy.
Also keep apples away from other fruit, they release something that makes other fruit spoil faster.
2007-09-17 11:44:10 · answer #2 · answered by D. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bananas are ripened aboard the ships that import them. They are exposed to ethylene gas while in the holds. (or in an ethylene ripening warehouse). There is no way to stop the process once it is started. "A" mentioned organic bananas, that may be the best answer.
Google banana ripening for more info.
To those who have given my negative checks, I'm a chemist who owns property in southern Vietnam. I know bananas. Google banana ripening and read,,,learn. The funny thing is, is that a banana is edible for WEEKS !. The green skin means nothing. Americans demand the yellow skinned (ethylene ripened) bananas that rot in a few days.
2007-09-17 11:25:06 · answer #3 · answered by rick m 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
By banannas that gave some green in the skins (small amount) they will take a while to ripen, but they will ripen in 7-10 days.
2007-09-24 10:47:48 · answer #4 · answered by Deborah S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bananas that are disregarded at room temperature will ripen at a severly speeded up %.. the only thank you to avert it quite is by using putting them into the refrigerator. Make be conscious nonetheless that when interior the refrigerator in case you place them out they'll bypass gentle even swifter. a chum of mine love her bananas ice chilly so she places them into the freeze and eats them like a banana sickle.
2016-10-09 09:03:24 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thjs usually happens within ten days no matter what you do. All I can advise is to buy smaller amounts. I have seen a new ad on TV for Debbie Meyers storage bags. They supposedly keep fruit and veggies fresh longer.
2007-09-17 11:00:52 · answer #6 · answered by sensible_man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy organic banana, they dont ripen as fast because they dont have growth hormone inside them
2007-09-17 11:00:41 · answer #7 · answered by A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
separate the bananas, they release a chemical that helps to ripen fruit and indeed other bananas.
2007-09-17 11:07:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
actully you could put it in the fridge for a day or two but put the fridge on 4
2007-09-17 11:00:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Put them in the freezer.
***Tip: Frozen bananas = YUM!
2007-09-17 10:58:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋