How to keep bananas fresh for a long time

Field crops distant tropical countries have long ceased to be exotic in our area, and bananas, it seems, all will soon be able to compete in price with the banal domestic potatoes. Therefore, there is every reason to highlight this tasty and healthy product more space in the daily diet. The only problem is that bananas have a relatively short shelf life, becoming just a week of yellow elastic soft fruit in brown do not understand that.

But there is a simple way to save mankind from the banana guile! And we'll tell you about it.

Before presenting this bit of advice, it is necessary to make a short excursion into the processing chain, which precedes the appearance of bananas on our tables.

Bananas are broken and are carried by sea in a very green and not usable condition. Upon arrival at the warehouse in the port of destination, the fruits are gassing procedure is specifically designed to activate the maturation process. For this purpose, the bananas are placed in a special chamber, where they are warmed to 20 degrees, and then the chamber is filled with "banana gas" - a mixture of nitrogen (95%) and ethylene (5%). This starts the process of rapid ripening, which allows bananas just 3-5 days to appear before us on the shelves in the form of a yellow and cute.

The main catalyst is ripening ethylene gas, which is released primarily through the stalks, and when it falls into the other parts of the fetus (or any other fruit or vegetable nearby), this leads to their rapid maturing. IN this article It serves leg wrap polyethylene film in the banana to prevent leakage of gas and retard spoilage processes fruit.

The most interesting thing is that it really works. Wrapped up in this way a banana stand the whole week on the windowsill virtually no signs of aging. Knowing about the effect of ethylene on bananas, can easily derive the formula and rapid maturation. If you manage to buy a bunch of green bananas, then just put them in a plastic bag with a few apples. They emit the same gas that is used for ripening bananas.

Well, if your family has pereeli bananas and they even see them do not want to, then there is a way to get them to look at these fruits again with great interest. Just take a toothpick and draw by means of extrusion to the skin of all that will be enough of your creative abilities. Ranging from the banal hearts and names (the children love to eat bananas signed), up to the present pictures.

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