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Question how do you keep bananas from turning brown? What's the best way to
store bananas long term? Now check this out. These bananas were purchased from
the same grocery store, on the very same day, next to each other on the shelf. Both
sets of bananas are over ten days old. We stored these bananas a special
way that we're going to share with you on this video. Hi folks it's Mike with
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you subscribe. Okay through the magic of video editing let's have a time-lapse
look at our experiment on how to keep bananas from turning brown. You will
notice a couple of blue pods in the container, and I'll explain to you what
those are coming up.
Day 5 and 6 is when we really start to notice the significant difference. Now
keep in mind that these bananas were sitting on my kitchen counter with an
average ambient temperature of about 73 degrees. Now by the time we got to day
8, I noticed that the bananas that were not in the container were
significantly softer than the ones that were in the container, so at that point I
decided to put those bananas in the refrigerator.
Putting the bananas in the refrigerator after they ripen on the kitchen counter
allows the inside of the banana, the parts you eat, to slow down its ripening
while the outside will continue to ripen and it'll get quite dark.
And after about ten days the bananas that were in the refrigerator were so
soft, that we decided to make banana bread. Now you will be able to see that
on day 12, we still have a little bit of green on our bananas. And by the way the
best way to peel a banana is from the bottom up to the stem. Not from the top
down. This eliminates those little strings whatever they're called. If
anybody knows what they're called, please let us know in the comment section. Okay
let's check out day 15. You'll notice there's still some green on the bananas.
And when we cut it open, you'll notice a little bit of bruising on the bottom but
that's the weight of the bananas causing the bruising in the container. As you
can see, these bananas are still quite edible. In our quest to find out how to
keep bananas from turning brown, we discovered that most bananas sold in the
United States come from places like Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, or other
places in Central, and South America. The bananas are shipped to the United States
on ships in cargo containers. The banana distributor has some elaborate systems
in place to control ethylene gas. Because they know if you can control ethylene
gas, you can control when the banana ripens. And I thought hey, if we can
control ethylene gas, maybe we can extend the lives of our bananas. And that's when
we discovered this dude, the product that you see on your screen, the blue Apple
ethylene absorption system. The little blue apples split apart and you put in a
filter that absorbs ethylene gas. And because ethylene gas is the number one
enemy for almost any vegetable, you can use the blue apple to prolong the life
of most vegetables and fruits. We'll put an affiliate link in the video
description so that you can get your own blue apple from Amazon if you like. And
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you go folks, now you know how to store bananas long term so you can save some
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