Posted on 09/12/2012 7:32:12 PM PDT by southern rock
Spray stops bananas breathing through their skin and kills the bacteria that make them rot
It is derived from shrimp and crab shells
Growers, supermarkets, even consumers could one day buy the experimental spray
A spray that stops bananas from rapidly turning to mush is being developed by scientists.
When used to coat green bananas, it slowed their ripening and so kept them fresh for almost a fortnight.
By contrast, supermarket-bought bananas often go brown and soggy within two or three days.
It is believed that the spray could help save some of the 1.6million bananas thrown away in Britain every day.
Dr Xihong Li, who made the spray from chitosan, a substance derived from shrimp and crab shells, said: ‘We found that by spraying green bananas with a chitosan aerogel, we can keep bananas fresh for up to 12 days.
‘Once bananas begin to mature, they quickly become yellow and soft, and then they rot.
‘We have developed ways to keep bananas green for a longer time and inhibit the rapid ripening that occurs.
‘Such a coating could be used at home by consumers, in supermarkets or during shipment of bananas.’
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It is believed that the spray could help save some of the 1.6million bananas thrown away in Britain every day.
I see the British haven't discovered Banana Bread.
SAVE THE BANANAS
You are wrong about organics, but whatever , and I really, really don’t care to hear anything from Texas. Go have some beef. I couldn’t care less about your animal “fetishes”. Enjoy.
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Why does the FDA have 'fecal splashing' as a contamination vector?
Humans are made of Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Oxygen, with some trace elements. We eat carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen, with some trace elements.
CHON is what we are, CHON is what we eat.
You make a big fuss about what you eat, making sure it meets certain ritual requirements, but regardless of your angst over it... you are going to get CHON, with trace elements.
Actually, BTW, I prefer pig. Only thing I don't use is the squeal.
/johnny
Some people will waste anything!
I'm more concerned with the pesticides, antibiotics, and steroids.
I have no problem with other people's choices. I just really prefer my own. I could go on and on about people who are vehemently anti-organics. I believe they are at the heart of it, collectivist. They resent the "bourgeois"- ness of it all. They resent people with the means taking up land and resourses to produce quality, low-yeild foods, when the rest of the world needs to be fed cheaply, with mass-produced, high-yeild foods.
Food "fetishists", as you call them, are anti-proletariat, and are resented for that reason. Don't think this is not the case.
Do you really know what 'organic' means? It means there is a Carbon atom involved.
I don't resent anyone eating whatever they want, even if it's 100 year old duck eggs, or fugu soup, or bird's nest soup.
What I resent is them whining about it.
I made my money off selling fat rich men mostly raw goose liver from force fed geese. That's pretty bourgeois. I'm partial to it myself.
You have NO assurance that what you are eating is what you think it is unless you grow it yourself.
/johnny
It's for the cheeruns. They needed a new dog anyway.
“Like it wouldn’t get into the fruit”
I really doubt it. Banana skins are quite thick, designed by nature to protect the fruit. It’s a gel coating,,,, not gonna penetrate to the fruit. You’re worrying about nothing. And I’m a 90% vegetarian. I eat no meat, except for fish, as it’s just so good for you!
When life gives you brown bananas, make banana bread.
Just don't regulate what I eat. Free range, deep fried, corn fed pig skins ain't cheap.
/johnny
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cooking is science, so is washing your hands after you handle poultry
“bananas would no longer be suitable for vegetarians and vegans”
So lie down and die and quit taking up space on this planet!!!!
What are other peoples choices regarding their food a problem? Nothing is more important than what you eat.
You want to eat crap, go for it. You want to insult me for choosing not to then go screw yourself.
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