Bananas ......... anyone else find there are so many that look fine but are bad inside ?

[Dave7]

We tend to eat lots of bananas. Lately we have found that many of them look & feel firm & healthy but inside lots of them are bad e.g. black (not bruised but black all the way through).
We bought a bunch last week-end and over half of them were bad.
We buy from a variety of stores so its not just one source.......although they may source from the same supplier.

 

[jefmcg]

Ugh. All bananas are bad on the inside.

Plantains are cool, however.

 

[PK99]

Ugh. All bananas are bad on the inside.

Plantains are cool, however.

Once bought a Huge banana to make a big fruit salad - dod not make the same mistake again!

 

[snorri]

I've been eating bananas regularly for years and can't recall ever finding one that looked good on the outside but was black on the inside.

 

[biggs682]

Why were they bad ?

i dont mind them when the skins are brown and the fruit is soft where as other half only likes firm ones !!!!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

No - I don't find that.

I eat 730.5/year on average.

 

[Dave7]

Why were they bad ?

i dont mind them when the skins are brown and the fruit is soft where as other half only likes firm ones !!!!

Why ??? no idea.
Skins are nice & yellow.....even partly greenish sometimes. Normally approx' 50% (at the end where you open it) is fine but the bottom section "appears" to be ok but is horrible and black in the middle. There is a 'tell-tale' grey(ish) section on the outside but inside its rotten.

 

[swee'pea99]

Nope. Never. If they're brown/black & mushy, they'll be perfect for making banana bread. Yum!

 

[Salty seadog]

Why ??? no idea.
Skins are nice & yellow.....even partly greenish sometimes. Normally approx' 50% (at the end where you open it) is fine but the bottom section "appears" to be ok but is horrible and black in the middle. There is a 'tell-tale' grey(ish) section on the outside but inside its rotten.

I too have found this often. More so at work where they sometimes store them in the fridge.

 

[Milzy]

Always.

 

[jefmcg]

"Dropping a crate of ripening bananas as little as one foot can cause them to have black centers. "

 

[Tin Pot]

We tend to eat lots of bananas. Lately we have found that many of them look & feel firm & healthy but inside lots of them are bad e.g. black (not bruised but black all the way through).
We bought a bunch last week-end and over half of them were bad.
We buy from a variety of stores so its not just one source.......although they may source from the same supplier.

No, never.

Tesco and Morrisons

 

[bigjim]

I think they arrive frozen or cold in containers for too long. I find tesco ones are always wet but Aldi's are fine but don't keep long. Which is ok.

 

[Jody]

Yes i have noticed a lot more bad bananas recently. Sometimes they show a slight bruise on the outside and sometimes they look OK. Its frustrating as I thought it was my handling of them first.

 

[Reynard]

Suspect they've been stored at too cold a temperature, frozen or close to that...

Not had that problem with bananas, but have encountered it with other supermarket-bought fruit.