Year after year bananas remain one of the bestselling fruits in the UK, famed not only for their freshness and delightful taste but also for their flexibility as both a quick bite and an addition to various delectable breakfast dishes. Yet the challenge many face is keeping these yellow beauties from going bad too quickly. While the common go-to might be to place them in a fruit bowl it turns out this could actually spur their demise.
Understanding the right storage techniques can enormously preserve the life of your bananas, sparing you some extra pence at the supermarket and helping reduce food waste. It's all down to the science of ethylene gas, which accelerates ripening among produce. The problem arises when fruits, which naturally emit this hormone, are grouped together leading to a chain reaction of spoilage.
Bananas are particularly notorious for their high ethylene production making them the usual suspects in a batch of over-ripened fruits. It's best to keep them away from..
. Shawna Healey , Angela Patrone.
