Keeping Bananas From Turning Black?

Suntydt
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February 9, 20131 found this helpful

I can't really explain the "why" they turn black. I would guess that is a banana's first steps in the rotting process.

As for preventing that I don't think you can but you can slow it down. At least we do. We put the bananas in two bags. One white (or clear) and one brown or gray (depends on where we shop that week). We keep these in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator.

I have never understood how this works. My mother has been doing this for years and it definitely slows down the "browning" process. Not by a whole lot but enough that we can get the bananas eaten before the last one has gone completely black.

Marie Brack

March 25, 20131 found this helpful

I keep bananas in the refrigerator because even though that makes the skins go black faster it also makes the actual fruit stay good even longer.

Catherine
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April 2, 20190 found this helpful

This is something I learned from a friend who was an electrician on board of cargos and his nightmare was the transport of bananas. It could make one laugh but transportation of bananas is not just difficult, it is very dangerous. Bananas are transported 40 days before their full maturation because later they are too soft and would scramble each other when piled up. That is the first problem but it is not the most important. When maturing, bananas produce a flammable and explosive gas the ethylene, and the ethylene, in turn, accelerate the ripening of bananas. To control this vicious circle, bananas must be transported at a very precise degree, never lower and never higher than 12° Celsius. The risk being not only to ruin the whole lot but most of all of an explosion of theirs containers on board.

Terri Simmerson N.

March 25, 20200 found this helpful

I have always had that early browning problem too & have tried all kinds of ways to shorten it,,A couple of years ago, I discovered if you leave them in the plastic bag they came in and carefully push out the air, then tie the top of the bag, them put them in another plastic bag and turn it all over after closing the top of the bag. As you need a banana, you open the 1st bag & them the next bag, take the banana and repeat the original process...works every time for me!