Think about it though: can you name anything else that doesn't last longer when you put it in the refrigerator? Fruit, vegetables, bread, juice, milk; pretty much any food product you can think of lasts longer (or at least just as long) in the fridge. But not bananas. They get worse real fast. That's weird.
Friday, October 21, 2011
It's weird that you can't refrigerate bananas.
Think about it though: can you name anything else that doesn't last longer when you put it in the refrigerator? Fruit, vegetables, bread, juice, milk; pretty much any food product you can think of lasts longer (or at least just as long) in the fridge. But not bananas. They get worse real fast. That's weird.
For the first 25 years of my life I was under that same assumption, but I recently realized that you actually can refrigerate them once they're the right level of ripe-ness. Even though they look like they've gone bad because their peels get darker more quickly, it does slow down the banana itself from ripening further. Just don't put unripe bananas in the fridge :)
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