Banana is Britain’s most wasted food

RightyTightyLeftyLoosey

Make a smoothie

Banana and Peanut Butter Smoothies. Look into it

frivolous_fay

Make a cake

Seems to me the window of opportunity between 'overripe' and 'splitting, seeping and festering' has shrunk a great deal... or is it just me being slack?

One minute I'm 'leave those, I'll make a cake with them' and it seems like the next he's 'I'm throwing these in the compost, they're well past it'

alisong_2

Make a cake

Bananas and custard or I add the really ripe ones to the dogs' teas!

ab7

Make a cake

Limited choices up there! We love smoothies with them & choc and banana bread so I have to hide a few from kids....we like them firm but will eat them speckled as long as there is no black bits.

Thanks for link Kadeeae, looks like a nice change from banana bread

LumpyCustard_2

I prefer ripe bananas, usually best when they have plenty of brown spots on the skin. The annoying thing about supermarkets only selling them yellow (or worse, green) is that I have to wait several days before eating them. Those with no spots smell a bit odd to me.

I once was eating a great banana for lunch in the office and the managing director saw its speckled skin, commented how awful it was and offered to buy me a better one. Naturally I declined. Perhaps this is why there is so much banana waste - because people only want to eat "perfect" looking ones.

CCP

Eat it quickly

It's very interesting to see how everyone likes their bananas - green, yellow, or so ripe they're disintegrating - it looks to me like there's scope for another poll here!

For the record, I like mine best when they're only just ripe, with a slight green tinge still left round the stem. Once they start getting spots on the skin I don't like them anymore, although they rarely get to that stage without me polishing them off first!

tintin99

frivolous_fay wrote: »

Seems to me the window of opportunity between 'overripe' and 'splitting, seeping and festering' has shrunk a great deal... or is it just me being slack?

One minute I'm 'leave those, I'll make a cake with them' and it seems like the next he's 'I'm throwing these in the compost, they're well past it'

Lakeland is selling £4.99 banana bag - says it keeps bananas in fridge without going black?!
I bought one - seems to be a nylon sack lined with some kind of bubblewrap?
Put bananas in the bright yellow sack tie firmly closed and keep in fridge.
Really does work !!
so no more throwing out (composting) black bananas.
They do last longer, skin does go black eventually but inside still firm, it gets another few ?6? days from bananas so worthwhile "investment".
Downside ? Have to take bananas out a wee while before eating as they are too cold to eat straight from fridge !