Have bananas been getting more rotten lately

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Just a few months ago I could buy bananas that would stay fresh for 3-5 days. Now everytime I buy bananas they are almost always rotten in a day, or they have numerous black spots. Is there something going wrong with the banana supply or am I just picking bad ones? FTR these are chiquita bananas from Kroger.

I’ve read before that bananas are on the verge of extinction. I don’t know if this has anything to do with that though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2664373.stm

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/5a4d4c3ee4d05010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

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If bananas go extinct…what will comedy bank robbers pretend is a gun inside their jacket?

Also, they’re brilliant to set up slip over gags. Dont want to see that disappear.

Banana…the fruit of comedy.

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We buy the mini bananas cause the are so cute.

They really get black quick.

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Try red bananas, hard to tell when they go black.

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I have not had any problems with my bananas. I only recently started having them, but I have no problems so far. I do try to only buy enough to last 3 or 4 days though.

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The answer lies here, my son.

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I haven’t done a scientific comparision, but lately I’ve been buying organic bananas and they seem to hang in there a day or two longer. I have no idea why this would be.

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Grocery stores only seem to restock their banana supply every week or so. If you get them at the beginning of the cycle rather than the end, they’ll last longer.

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Bananas will ripen quicker in the presence of ethylene gas. If your leaving them next to some apples or even other bananas, they will ripen faster.

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I don’t know about bananas in general, but this one sure has been.