The perfect number of bananas

[IBMJunkman]

Buy a 3 piece semi-green bunch and then check the loose bin for the more yellow ones. Good for 5 or 6 days.

 

[bigboxes]

Your slices are uneven. C+ for effort.

As for the OP - I suggest buying bananas in a spectrum of ripeness. Visit several stores if necessary.

LOL. There's actually an AT member named "Banana" posting in a thread on bananas. A member I have never seen post. Been here since 2001, eh? Wow. GO BANANA!

 

[Banana]

holy wtf lurker?!
there's a member named Banana?

3000+ posts is not lurker!

LOL. There's actually an AT member named "Banana" posting in a thread on bananas. A member I have never seen post. Been here since 2001, eh? Wow. GO BANANA!

You must be new here. I've not seen you either.

 

[bigboxes]

3000+ posts is not lurker!


You must be new here. I've not seen you either.

It took me 14 years to start hanging out in OT. I came here for the IT stuff.

 

[MrSquished]

I usually buy 5. Most of the times, eat with ice cream.



No. 6 of ripeness for me.

Good chart. I'd take a #7 banana over all of those.

 

[dullard]

Good chart. I'd take a #7 banana over all of those.

#7 is the tastiest and have the best texture by far in my opinion (even if you include #8 and above). But the chart is not a good chart. It ignores benefits of green bananas such as resistant starches.

Studies show that resistant starches have a small benefit to body weight if you are overweight. They also help with lean body mass. But their real benefit is with insulin. Resistant starches help with insulin sensitivity/lower risk of diabetes and thus lower diabetes-linked problems such as heart disease and cancer.

Green bananas are high in resistant starches. But as they ripen, the resistant starches are turned into sugars. So the green bananas turn from foods that prevent diabetes to foods that might help cause it as they yellow.

 

[zinfamous]

#7 is the tastiest and have the best texture by far in my opinion (even if you include #8 and above). But the chart is not a good chart. It ignores benefits of green bananas such as resistant starches.

Studies show that resistant starches have a small benefit to body weight if you are overweight. They also help with lean body mass. But their real benefit is with insulin. Resistant starches help with insulin sensitivity/lower risk of diabetes and thus lower diabetes-linked problems such as heart disease and cancer.

Green bananas are high in resistant starches. But as they ripen, the resistant starches are turned into sugars. So the green bananas turn from foods that prevent diabetes to foods that might help cause it as they yellow.

I freeze down #1 bananas for more important uses like banana pudding or banana bread. I've actually come to prefer green bananas for eating, in recent years, even though they are a bit more bitter.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Need more, that way the woman can bake banana bread!

 

[Feneant2]

I'm pretty sure looking at that chart that 1-2-3 are a different fruit and not even a banana. I buy mine at 4+ and only eat them once they are 7, maybe 6 if I'm desperate. I typically buy a bunch of 5 and then give them a week (7 days) to ripen and eat them the week after.

 

[preCRT]

It is size, not color that matters. Smaller is better.

 

[slag]

I eat 2 a day when I remember to bring them to work. My son has 1 or 2 a day, my wife one a day, .. We buy a few pounds at a time. It takes a good 4-5 days for bananas to go from "greenish around the edges" to "ready for banana bread" ripe.

 

[BudAshes]

The correct answer is 0, you damn dirty apes.

 

[Carson Dyle]

I'm pretty sure looking at that chart that 1-2-3 are a different fruit and not even a banana.

The most striking about that chart is that whoever put it together didn't even have the patience to use a single banana and photograph it while it ripened over the course of a week.