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Old 10-20-2008, 11:26 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Default Re: Insanity in the banana world.

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Originally Posted by turtile View Post

Get some ethylene.
Have you ever tasted a banana that was forced to ripen with ethylene? I have. My Aunt was a banana wholesaler at the Divisoria Market in Manila, who received 4 shiploads of bananas a week from Davao in southern Philippines. Some of her competitors have, but she never used ethylene to force the bananas to ripen. They taste awful. Sometime the middle of the pulp is still hard and putrid. But they sure look ripe!
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