How can you try to keep bananas fresh for a longer time so they don't go brown?

Answer 1

Answer:The best way to keep bananas so they don't ripen too quickly, is to hang them up so they are not touching anything. This is done in many large supermarkets in England.

Answer 2

Keep them in a place with good ventilation. This removes the airborne chemicals that ripe bananas give off; these make bananas around them ripen further so getting rid of them will make your bananas ripen slower. Chill them; this makes them very inactive in terms of ripening and is a standard way of keeping something fresh longer. If you have many bunches of bananas, keep the riper ones separate from the less ripe ones, for the first reason above; you can then apply the above on the different groups of bananas you have.

Answer 3

I usually refrigerate a bunch of bananas and it seems to help slow the ripening process .

The best thing to do is refrigerate the bananas. This will cause the skin to turn brown or black, but the fruit will remain fresh longer than if left at room temperature. Take the fruit out of the refrigerator and allow it to ripen completely or to the desired stage before consuming. If it is not possible to refrigerate the fruit, then the next best thing is to keep the fruit away from heat sources such as direct sunlight. Heat will accelerate the ripening process. Also, keep the fruit in a well ventilated space and, if possible, place the bunched fruit on a banana stand. This will keep a naturally occurring gas emitted by the fruit called ethylene from overexposure to the fruit. The gas also accelerates the ripening process. Finally, keep the fruit away from other fruit that has already ripened and/or has been damaged or bruised. Such fruit is giving off large amounts of ethylene gas, which, again, will hasten the ripening process.

Answer 4

When you buy the bananas, buy them so that they aren't quite ripe yet, And don't knock them about because they get bruised and dont put them in the fridge, keep them out in the open.

Answer 5

put it in a air tight box and pump nitrogen in it and the will stay ripe for about two weeks