too ripe bananas?
Seems like a silly question, but how do I know when my spotty bananas are too ripe? Lately I'm not enjoying them so much, they have an almost alcoholic aftertaste, but they arent squishy or anything, just very spotty...hmmm
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Permalink Reply by Helena on -
Hey Jessica
Excellent! I'd love to do a banana feast with you. Having a banana-buddy is a great motivation to stop thinking 'I'll do this soon' and do it now. I'll be aiming to do a 2-week nana&greens feast but I guess I'll see how it goes. I don't mean that in an uncommitted way, it's just been my experience that as things come up I learn by getting it wrong before I can get it right ;-)
Your tomorrow will be here sooner than mine, so happy banana-breakfasting!
Love
Helena
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Permalink Reply by Jessica on -
Heya! Let me know how it goes :)
xxx
Ive already had a 10 banana smoothie n now Im feeling like some more!
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Permalink Reply by Uti on -
Helena,
I have a suggestion about your feast. It this is your first experience, I would suggest starting off with a 4-5 day feast, but have extra nanners and greens on hand at the end of your feast. Then when you get to day 4 or 5 you can make the decision to end the feast or continue on. The reason for this is if you overreach with a goal and don't succeed or if a long feast isn't feeling so good and you continue because you're attached to the goal, then you'll likely judge yourself or feel you've failed, or abuse yourself, blah, blah, blah. Be gentle and loving with yourself in this learning process. If 5 days works, you can always take a break of a few days and start a new feast with the intention of going as long as it feels good. Lots of people set themselves up for failure and abuse with unreasonable goals. Why not set yourself up for a win-win? After all, isn't the whole purpose of a raw food diet to love ourselves and create better overall health?
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Permalink Reply by Helena on
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Hey Uti
Thanks very much for your gentle and timely reminder. I definitely get carried away with excitement about things and forget my limitations - in this instance a long history of disordered eating so I'm going to go very slowly with transitioning so as not to 'set myself up for failure & abuse'. Instead I chose Love!
Love
Helena
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Permalink Reply by Crabby Cancer on -
This is related but not directly. For bananas that haven't ripened yet, I read that you should put them in paper bag with other fruit and toss it under the sink overnight.
Anyone else heard of this? I'm guessing which fruit you use would be pretty important.
I've used a banana and avocado to ripen the avocado, and it worked. It also seemed to accelerate the ripeness of the banana, but that may be due to the dankness, and not the relationship between the two fruits.
Hmph. I suppose I could've researched it first before typing away. lol...oh well, we bounce things off each other anyway
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Permalink Reply by jason on -
Its the ethylene gas let off by the banana which speeds the ripening. If you have a lot of bananas together they will ripen faster than if you keep them away from each other.
Those green bags on tv absorb ethylene gas and keep your stuff fresh longer.
Grocery stores spray stuff with ethylene gas to ripen it.
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Permalink Reply by Crabby Cancer on
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wow...I'm so glad I stumbled onto this forum...thanks for the info. I'm currently eating nothing but bananas to heal away colitis and Crohn's...so this will be helpful:)
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Permalink Reply by Jessica on
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Yeah, ripe bananas in a brown bag with any fruit, including unripe bananas, will ripen them. I guess its that gas everyone is talking about?
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Permalink Reply by Jessica on
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Nah, Durian, they are from the big banana. I was coming home from Byron and we stopped there *my friends thought it was hilarious seeing me, the huge banana muncher at the big b* and I decided to ask if I could buy a box straight from the source. I doubt they were organic, but they were beautiful (I asked for the ripest they had) but yeah about four or five days down the track the remaining ones arent so good.
Yeah like you said, good compost!
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