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>> Any tips on preventing bananas from ripening seemingly overnight?
@Retired_Engineer:
Store them in the fridge away from any other tryps of citrus or acidic fruits/veggies.
@BooBear: Thanks! I'll try that! For over a year now, we buy slightly green bananas and if we don't eat them within two days, they get the black spots and start turning mushy. I know that bananas give off ethylene gas as they ripen and ethylene gas causes fruits to ripen faster. We've tried separating the bananas from each other and that only helped a little. BTW, if you want another fruit (including tomatoes) to ripen faster, put them in a plastic bag with a banana. The ethylene gas from the banana will cause them to ripen faster. I learned about that many years ago when I worked upriver from New Orleans. We had a slow ethylene gas leak from one of our units. Everyone's vegetable and fruit plants all around the plant suddenly ripened almost overnight. Even small green tomatoes turned bright red! The company bought everybody's ripe fruits and veggies from the neighbors if they were unhappy.
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