What's wrong with my bananas?!?

[RawChicky]

I have recently bought a ton of bananas. The weird thing is, some of the green ones I bought never turned yellow, but accumulated a good amount of brown spots all over them. WHAT?!?!? Green with brown spots? It's so weird. I opened one and it smelled sweet and ripe, and so I've been eating them and using them in my green smoothies, but what the heck? Anyone else seen this? What's wrong with my bananas????

[Stina]

I'll take a gander they were picked prematurely.

[puffysmom]

Iv'e had that happen many times also. I dont know what it is but it is deceiving. Taste just as good as a yellow one so enjoy. :D

[eatyourbroccoli]

yup..same thing has been happening with my bananas lately. even to the point where theyre still tinted green on the outside with hardly any brown spots and i open them (...theyd be on the counter "ripening" for almost FIVE days) and they tasted almost TOO ripe..

i dunno whats going on with them. i buy organic always so i hope if anything it has more to do with climate change and less to do with GM.

[Wendee]

I know what you mean, I have those types right now.

What I know is that they have been exposed to extreme cold for an extended period of time, so they are green, yet not if that makes sense.

The freezing temp. ruins the ripening process.


Wendy from the Windy City

[vwinters]

That happened a lot to me over the winter. It’s weird and unappealing. I’m suspicious. Something is amiss in banana land.
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[SmilingRawDancer]

I buy bananas in bulk at costco, and one time I bought 3-4 bags of green ones.
Well, I let them ripen for about a week, then when they were yellow and spotted I went to open one, and all of the bananas - even separate bags - were mushy.
They looked completely normal, but they felt like rubber. I took them back.

[StarFire]

Okay Rawbies... there's something wrong with your mainland bananas!! :confused: Mutant bananas.... :eek:

[eatyourbroccoli]

Okay Rawbies... there's something wrong with your mainland bananas!! :confused: Mutant bananas.... :eek:

thats what im afraid of..

especially with the whole "bananas are going to be extinct soon!" crisis and the main offered solution being genetic modification..

how convenient.

separately...if freezing or exposure to really cold temps alters the whatever of the banana enough to hault the external ripening process, anyone know what else it alters? just leaves me curious about freezing's true effect on nutritional constitution of fruits and whatnot :confused:

[SedonaSun]

I've found the same thing here... mostly with green organic bananas though and not so much conventional. One bunch even stayed green and got hard...never soft and ripe. What's up with that?!

[eatyourbroccoli]

That happened a lot to me over the winter. It’s weird and unappealing. I’m suspicious. Something is amiss in banana land.
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ps..

this response made me laugh :D

[eatyourbroccoli]

I've found the same thing here... mostly with green organic bananas though and not so much conventional. One bunch even stayed green and got hard...never soft and ripe. What's up with that?!

yes yes..its the organic ones!

i buy organic, and set them next to the conventional ones my family buys..and mine stay greenish yellowish and theirs turn brown

[RawVegan4Health]

Perhaps the conventional ones have been designed to be picked unripe and ripen afterwards, and the organic ones are not ripening because they were picked too soon for nature to be ready to unleash them on the world?

[RawChicky]

Yeah it IS only the organic ones? What the fruit?!?!?! :mad:

[Eilene]

Yes...has happened to me also. It is only the Organic ones.

[juliebove]

I've had that and I don't know why. I'll keep letting them sit, thinking they'll get more ripe and then by the time I open them, they are rotted.

[Elle_Murphy]

I have to be careful with the organic ones I buy. This only happens to me with those. And you know, organic isnt cheap. I've had to end up tossing a lot before.

[StarFire]

Mainland Banana Land is scary :eek: !! We are very blessed here in Hawaii - they are growing on trees right here in our yard, we chop off the bunch - hang them on our porch - and anyone that passes by is welcome to help themselves!! And - they turn yellow like the sun and they are delicious! Do you any of you ever have imported bananas from Hawaii?? Ours all seem to be okay!

[magglepie]

Hmmm. weird. I bought some organic bananas the other day, but have had no problems, yet... Starfire: You made laugh very hard! Mutant bananas :D

[Ireland]

Oh my goodness gracious me. :) You have your very own banana tree. I can only imagine.

However, I'll try not to be too terribly envious because I plan on moving this summer. (same town, different yard) In it, are cherry trees, a plum tree and a pear tree. Still, I'd trade all three for one banana tree.

[RawVegan4Health]

OK, this may sound weird....

....but I swear that bunch of green bananas is staring at me behind my back this morning:eek:

[vgloveforlife]

Hey guys this is happening to me too...only with organic bananas. Very weird.