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Does bananas give you gas

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Bananas give off a gas called Ethylene. . Ethylene is A colorless flammable gas, C2H4, derived from natural gas and petroleum and used as a source of many organic compounds, in welding and cutting metals, to color citrus fruits, and as an anesthetic. Also called ethene.

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It is actually ethylene gas.

This gas is produced within vegetables, fruits, flowers, and other organics, as well as in the products of combustion.

It is a regulatory gas that affects the aging/maturing/death of many if not most plant tissues. The amount of the gas produced varies by the particular fruit/veggie/flower, as does the effect of ethylene gas on the aging/ripening/eventual spoilage (higher/lower sensitivity). You can hasten ripening of tomatoes and bananas by placing them in a bag where the ethylene gas that evolves increases in concentration, and the reabsorption hastens ripening. Since ethylene gas is more dense than air, hanging the bananas in a bunch from a "banana tree" that allows free air circulation around and below the bananas will slow the ripening process vs placing the bananas in a bowl where the ethylene gas will tend to accumulate in the bottom of the bowl. (wire mesh baskets have similar effects for fruit that is highly sensitive to ethylene gas)

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Bananas often give off gasses like ethanol and methane when exposed to heat.

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they never give me gas! just apples

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Bananas fart ethylene gas but can also be treated with it to accelerate the process. This gas comes from the beloved banananus, which is where waste is excreted from the banana.

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They sure do! But I love them.

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They are not considered a gassy food.

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It is a fruit

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No.

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Do ripened bananas influence unripened bananas to start the ripening process?

In a sense, they do. As bananas ripen, they give off heat and ethylene gas, which stimulates other bananas (and other fruit) to ripen.


Can bananas make other fruit ripen faster?

They can if -the bananas are already ripe, andthe bananas are placed in the immediate vicinity to the other fruit (such as in a fruit bowl)This is because bananas give off ethylene gas which makes fruit ripen faster.Some companies that artificially grow fruit use ethylene gas to ripen their fruit faster (although this gas is concentrated, not from growing bananas with other fruit)


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What are bananas sprayed with to accelerate ripening?

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