What has gone wrong with supermarket bananas ?

spiritus

Is it just me or do bananas now only have a shelf life of around 2 days before they go off ?

It's tough to even find any decent looking ones in the supermarket but within a couple of days they're already beginning to go off.

I've also noticed that when they do start to turn black they go black from the inside out instead of from the skin.

JOHNNY_LOVES_JAZZ

I've stopped buying bananas in the supermarket too,except for Aldi where they always seem to taste ok and don't seem like they've been forced to ripen..
Otherwise they're just like you say and taste awful.

sistercas

i bought bananas for my DH he said they taste awful and are black inside :eek:
stopped buying them now

davetrousers

I only see green bananas in supermarkets that need to be left for 5 days before they're ready to eat.

dickydonkin

The problem with many supermarket bananas is that they are transported in ambient/chilled temperature vehicles, then displayed in or around chilled areas which will turn the skins grey. When bananas are transported or stored in receiving areas after export, the temperatures are strictly controlled and are stored in warm areas.

Once bananas are chilled, they will turn grey/black and don't look very nice.

jap200

I usually buy the bags of Tesco market value bananas, but the last two lots smelled so foul that my kids wouldn't eat them. I now have a bowl of about 6 black bananas to make a couple of cakes from when I get a moment.

shellsuit

I'll only buy them from Aldi now.

Anywhere else and they're rank within a couple of days. Aldi bananas are great,

I bought some on Monday morning and they're still nice, yellow and edible now

shopndrop

I find that most of them now smell horrible, almost damp like. Yuk

VfM4meplse

I can't stand picking bananas up in the supermarket to discover they are wet...yuck!

ss3n08

We buy all our fruit from the greengrocer now. It's cheaper, lasts longer and tastes better.

uolypool

We get ours from the market on a thursday and they are still fine on the tues / wed the following week on the rare occasion there are any left then.Even then my son goes past the market on his way back from 6th form and the market stall seller has boxes on the floor of lots of fruit and veg for £2.50.Today he has bought home 8 apples ,15 bananas, 12 pears, 25 citrus fruit 2 cucumbers , a biggish lettuce a brown bag full of tomatoes and some baking pots.For £2.50 cant be bad.;)