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Bananas will last longer without going brown if stored with 1 kitchen item

amedpostBy amedpostJuly 7, 2025 Life & Style No Comments3 Mins Read
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The perfect combination of sweet and healthy, bananas are the ideal snack when you’re feeling a bit peckish. But the downside is this delicious fruit can turn bad pretty fast.

The yellow fruit generally only last around two to five days once ripe when stored on the kitchen worktop, so if you’ve bought a bunch you can often find some have turned brown and mushy before you’ve got round to eating them. But thankfully, there is a very simple – and cheap – way around this problem, and it simply requires a slight change to how you store your bananas at home.

Bananas tend to ripen faster when they’re left to sit in a fruit bowl – especially if placed alongside other fruits, but storing them with tin foil can effectively slow this process down so they last a lot longer before turning brown. According to food experts, wrapping the stems of bananas in tin foil helps to keep them fresh as the foil slows down the ripening process by trapping ethylene gas – a natural ripening agent that is primarily released from the stem.

By trapping this gas, bananas can be prevented from turning brown too quickly, thereby extending their shelf life and keeping them fresh for longer. The ethylene gas helps aid the change in colour and softness of bananas, causing the starches to start to break down and form sugars. As this happens, unripe green bananas will start to turn yellow and become softer and sweeter.

Food Republic explains: “Compared to other fruits and veggies, bananas are one of the biggest producers of ethylene gas, a natural chemical compound that promotes ripening.

“The majority of this gas is released through the exposed stem of the fruit, which allows a bunch of bananas to continue ripening even after it’s picked from the tree.

“Wrapping the top of your bunch with aluminium helps to trap in some of the ethylene, so it won’t escape into the atmosphere and touch the body of the bananas (or other produce you have sitting nearby, for that matter). This slows down browning and gives you more time to enjoy your bunch.”

If you don’t have any tin foil to hand then cling film should work just as well, and both typically cost less than £2 at most major supermarkets.

It’s also worth storing your bananas away from other fruit once you’ve wrapped the stems as the ethylene gas can cause nearby fruits to ripen more quickly, meaning they will spoil faster.

Many fruits respond to the ethylene gas released by bananas, including apples, pears, and passion fruit, but citrus fruits like oranges and lemons are unaffected.

To avoid spoiling other fruits, experts recommend handing your bananas up on a banana hook as this not only keeps them separate but also prevents bruising that can be caused by leaning bananas against the kitchen worktop.

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