There’s something wrong with the bananas….?

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Has anyone bought bananas recently. I’m in the U.K. if that’s relevant but in theory all our big, yellow bananas are genetic clones and so susceptible to being wiped out by a virus (I think I heard).

I buy my bananas with the last traces of green. My favourite stage. No black spots for me. The banana is fine at the tips and around the outside (and the peel looks normal) but, but, but……I have about a 60% strike rate of finding a shitty banana. It seems like a disease because all that happens is the very interior/middle of the fruit has gone rubbery and mushy, black and nasty-tasting.

I’m concerned for our big yellow bananas. They’re at huge risk from disease being genetically identical. Maybe we need to diversify into those little, red, Thai bananas or idk if there are other varieties.

Just needed to get that off my chest for I am a (slightly green, firm) banana fan and have been disappointed with a black mush disease. Has anyone else had a problem…..and if so, where are you in the world.

I’ve never written out the word ‘banana’ so many times …..ever.
 
They have been replaced with alien pods. these Neobananas will rapidly convert the populace into drones for the Zetan Rectulian aliens(also known widely as the Roswell's Gray Alien). Its to late
 
It’s probably an infection and the pathogen is likely to be Nigrospora fungus.

As to how this happened to your bananas it all started at the plantation where your bananas were grown, their soil is probably infected with the fungus and it’s a pain in the ass to treat (you have to burn any infected plants/leaf litter and treat the soil with copper-based fungicides).
 
Cats dijo:
They have been replaced with alien pods. these Neobananas will rapidly convert the populace into drones for the Zetan Rectulian aliens(also known widely as the Roswell's Gray Alien). Its to late
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Lifeforms from Zeta Reticulii are famously oxygen-averse, so it makes sense to replace bananas.
 
If you like 'em, maybe move somewhere you can grow 'em? I can't imagine the long haul to Limey Land does anything to improve the fuckers...
 
I'm in the US and have been having banana troubles too. They are either green and squishy or brown and squishy. Some are brown and green at the same time. Occasionally I find a banana that's practically white.

Red bananas have been hit or miss. I had a few that tasted really strange even though they looked fine.
 
I bought some that were terrible but not in the same way as yours it sounds like. The green was all gone and there was just a dash of brown starting to show up, my preferred level of ripeness, but when I went to peel it the skin was just incredibly tough, almost like peeling birch bark off of a limb, and when I bit into the banana it was practically crunchy, it was bizarre, the texture was more like a slightly mushy apple than a banana. I enjoy underripe bananas as well where the peel still has a lot of green even if it's not my favorite, but this entire bunch was way, way tougher then even those.

The flavor was... Ok-ish, but they all tasted underripe compared to the skin. I let one get way overripe, at least going by the peel, to make a small batch of icecream with and while I didn't try a bite of it it felt more like a regular ripe banana as I broke it into chunks to blend up, but even with the skin just all brown and mushy/gross looking it was still very tough to peel
 
NoReturn dijo:
Has the UK changed how the ripen the bananas? Usually they're picked not-ripe and allowed to ripen in transit.
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That's how almost every fruit is ripened in the States (and presumably everywhere else). It's the only way to get them to the stores with any real shelf life unless they are being sold very close to where they're grown. That's why fruit from the farmer's market is so much better.
 
RougeRed dijo:
That's how almost every fruit is ripened in the States (and presumably everywhere else). It's the only way to get them to the stores with any real shelf life unless they are being sold very close to where they're grown. That's why fruit from the farmer's market is so much better.
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Yep, much much better.
What I was alluding to was more the process itself. I know in the states they use a certain amount of "induced ripening agents" and I wonder if in the UK they changed something in the ratio of ethylene to nitrogen or added something new.
 
Cats dijo:
They have been replaced with alien pods. these Neobananas will rapidly convert the populace into drones for the Zetan Rectulian aliens(also known widely as the Roswell's Gray Alien). Its to late
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This cats is wrong. We mean you no harm, only peace. Take this cook book To Serve Man as a token of esteem.
 
TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve dijo:
I bought some that were terrible but not in the same way as yours it sounds like. The green was all gone and there was just a dash of brown starting to show up, my preferred level of ripeness, but when I went to peel it the skin was just incredibly tough, almost like peeling birch bark off of a limb, and when I bit into the banana it was practically crunchy, it was bizarre, the texture was more like a slightly mushy apple than a banana. I enjoy underripe bananas as well where the peel still has a lot of green even if it's not my favorite, but this entire bunch was way, way tougher then even those.
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You're absolutely certain it was a banana? Because what you're describing sounds very much like a plantain.
 
Prokhor Zakharov dijo:
You're absolutely certain it was a banana? Because what you're describing sounds very much like a plantain.
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The sticker on it rang up as bananas but I guess it's possible someone trolled me, they were exceptionally large for bananas but on the small side for plantains I've seen. They definitely had the sharp banana curve and thin stem whereas plantains have kind of a continuous curve and thicker stems

I've never had a plantain so I looked it up and apparently they're not especially sweet/require cooking and my banana ice cream was very disappointing today

In my head that's two points for bananas (sticker, visual appearance) and two points for plantain (texture, little sweetness)

Do plantains come as bunches? Whenever I've seen them they've been individual plantains and this was a pretty large bunch, I think six of them. If they can come in bunches that wouldn't be a point for either side
 
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