[Sca-cooks] Bananas

[Audrey Bergeron-Morin]

Well, yes, but bananas are one of the exceptions. They do keep ripening
after they're picked.

"Apricots, bananas, cantaloupe, kiwi, nectarines, peaches, pears, plantains
and plums continue to ripen after they're picked. Fruits you should pick or
buy ripe and ready-to-eat include: apples, cherries, grapefruit, grapes,
oranges, pineapple, strawberries, tangerines and watermelon." (
http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/ciqaa.shtml). Note that I don't know how
reliable this site is; but it's in line with what I've read elsewhere.


On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Susan Lin <susanrlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> IIRC - reaching WAY back into my feeble mind - a lot of fruit (and veggies)
> are harvested prior to being ripe and then are ripened using a process
> where
> banana gas is piped into their "space" - the thing is that the fruit/veg
> turns the right color but never gets the same flavor had it been left on
> the
> vine to ripen correctly - that's why tomatoes out of the garden or from the
> farmer's market always taste so much better than the ones you get at the
> store in January (even those grown in a hothouse).  That's also why most
> cooks/chefs say canned tomatoes are fine to use because they were actually
> canned ripe and not artificially ripened.
> -Shoshana
>
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Stefan li Rous
> <stefanlirous at austin.rr.com>wrote:
>
> > Back on July 19, Talana mentioned:
> > <<< I worked for a produce distributor for couple of years.  The bananas
> > arrived green, and we ripened them in the warehouse.>>>
> >
> > I have noticed that a lot of the bananas I see in my local HEB grocery
> > store still look pretty green.
> >
> > So why couldn't they have harvested the bananas green and shipped them to
> > southern Europe or even England?  Was the shipping time still too long
> and
> > they would go from green to over-ripe while still being shipped? Or is
> there
> > some more processing that needs to be done or a temperature range that
> has
> > to be maintained that medieval shipping practices couldn't accommodate?
> >
> > Stefan
> >
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