Cover the top of your banana bunch in plastic wrap will make them last a lot longer. The reason this helps is because most of the natural ethylene gas bananas use to ripen themselves is in the stem.
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If you wrap the stems of bananas with cling wrap, they will not turn brown so fast.
To keep bananas fresh for a few days longer, wrap a piece of plastic wrap on the stem of the bunch.
