# Is it safe to eat bruised parts of a banana?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 2, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-to-eat-bruised-parts-of-a-banana/847382 "2020-02-02T14:21:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-to-eat-bruised-parts-of-a-banana/847382/21 "2020-02-06T14:15:25Z")

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I knew a fellow who died from bruised bananas. He was driving and saw a fruit stand on the other side of the road. So he pulled over to the shoulder, parked his car, and walked across the road to the fruit stand. He bought a bunch of bruised bananas. As he was crossing back to his car, a mammoth truck hit and killed him.

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**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-to-eat-bruised-parts-of-a-banana/847382/22 "2020-02-06T15:11:48Z")

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I worked with a guy who only at bananas when they had turned solid black, They were mushy.

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**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-to-eat-bruised-parts-of-a-banana/847382/23 "2020-02-06T15:49:12Z")

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It’s unsafe to eat the bruised part of a banana only near a driftwood fire.

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**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-to-eat-bruised-parts-of-a-banana/847382/24 "2020-02-07T06:29:28Z")

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> [@snowthx](#):
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> It’s unsafe to eat the bruised part of a banana only near a driftwood fire.

Especially during tarantula breeding season when daylight come and me wanna go home.

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**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-to-eat-bruised-parts-of-a-banana/847382/25 "2020-02-07T15:43:52Z")

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> [@Eva\_Luna](#):
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> Bruised bananas make perfectly fine banana bread

This, times a thousand. I never make banana bread with bananas that are perfectly yellow and appetizing (the kind you would eat raw). You need the brownest, ickiest, gooiest, almost-rancid bananas for good banana bread. Bonus points if they’re attracting fruit flies.

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**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-safe-to-eat-bruised-parts-of-a-banana/847382/26 "2020-02-08T05:25:37Z")

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I’m not sure about this, but I think all or almost all the starch in a fruit has to turn into sugar before the fruit begins to rot versus ferment. This is assuming the fruit isn’t moldy or has a fungus growing.

The adage: \*One bad apple spoils the barrel \*is discussed [here](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bad-apples-rotten-good-ones_n_5784f23ee4b0ed2111d783ff).

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