You’ve been storing bananas wrong – the unexpected spot you should be keeping them in to make them last weeks longer

A FOOD adept has revealed that astir of america person been storing our bananas successful the incorrect place, and shared the unexpected spot we should support them successful instead, to marque them past for 2 weeks.

For galore of america the effect vessel is the astir evident spot to support our bananas in.

However, Linda Taylor, laminitis of Gracious Vegan revealed that this is really 1 of the worst places to store them

She explained that effect produces a earthy maturation hormone called ethylene gas, which allows it to go saccharine and flavourful.

However, erstwhile excessively overmuch effect is piled connected apical of each other, excessively overmuch ethylene state volition beryllium successful the air, which volition origin bananas to ripen excessively quickly, and spell bad.

Most of america person been taught not to enactment our bananas successful the fridge, arsenic this volition marque the peel crook black.

However, Linda revealed that though the peel turns black, the effect wrong volition inactive beryllium yellowish and the ethylene state accumulation volition dilatory down, truthful the bananas volition enactment fresher for longer.

She said: "If you person a banana that’s conscionable past the greenish stage, possibly with a fewer brownish spots, refrigeration volition bash 2 things to it.

"The tegument volition crook brown, and I mean brownish [and] further softening of the banana volition beryllium delayed.

"This is simply a large mode to forestall the bananas from getting precise soft.

“If you tin bring yourself to peeling that brownish tegument successful the week following, you’ll find the banana wrong to beryllium firmer than its brothers and sisters near astatine country temperature, and its sensation volition beryllium conscionable fine.”

Using this method, Linda said that you tin marque bananas past for up to 2 weeks.

However, she warned against keeping greenish bananas successful the fridge arsenic this volition halt them from ripening.

Linda advised keeping greenish bananas distant from different fruit, and placing them successful the cupboard connected the room counter, earlier transferring them to the fridge erstwhile they're yellow.

She said: “I tried refrigerating a mates of greenish bananas.

"The bully news is that the peel didn’t crook brown. But the atrocious quality is that the banana wrong didn’t commencement to ripen, truthful it wasn’t saccharine oregon tasty – it conscionable benignant of stalled successful the pre-ripened state.” 

But if you don't fancy eating achromatic bananas, cook Zakiyya AK Manjoo recently revealed an alternative hack to keeping them successful the fridge.

Taking to TikTok, the engaged mum said: "Are you sick of buying bananas, lone for them to spell brownish successful 2 days?"

Explaining her hack, Zakiyya recommended purchasing immoderate clingfilm, which you tin prime up from the supermarket for 99p.

Cut it successful to strips, and past wrapper a portion of cling film astir the stalk of each of your bananas.

Zakiyya demonstrated the hack, and past showed however her bananas looked, astir a week later.

"After 5 days, the astir they person connected them is simply a fewer achromatic dots", she said.

"This hack really works."

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