Are These Bananas Okay?

MaiLinna
MaiLinna Posts: 580 Member
edited July 2016 in Food and Nutrition
I can't find anything anywhere that will give me a definitive answer. From spiders to disease and everything in between, nothing has told me if these bananas are okay:

http://imgur.com/a/tQMBw

Edit: Here's another angle:

http://imgur.com/a/3wH18

Google basically told me this:

"Spiders. Mold. Mosaic. Nah they're fine. But they could be spiders."

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  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    edited July 2016
    They look like perfectly fine, regular bananas to me. What's the concern?
  • XnRGrandpa
    XnRGrandpa Posts: 62 Member
    Nothing wrong that I can see. I'd have no qualms adding them to my smoothies.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,741 Member
    I wouldn't have bought the one with the dent in it but, otherwise, they look fine.
  • MaiLinna
    MaiLinna Posts: 580 Member
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    They look like perfectly fine, regular bananas to me. What's the concern?

    Those tiny green protruding bumps. They're all over. Lemme take a shot of the back. Maybe you can't tell.
  • zamphir66
    zamphir66 Posts: 582 Member
    I saw on facebook that people are injecting AIDS bacteria into bananas. I wouldn't eat them.
  • MaiLinna
    MaiLinna Posts: 580 Member
    Facebook is pretty freaking lame though.
  • MaiLinna
    MaiLinna Posts: 580 Member
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    They look like perfectly fine, regular bananas to me. What's the concern?

    http://imgur.com/a/3wH18
  • ponycyndi
    ponycyndi Posts: 858 Member
    I see the green dots, but I don't know what they are. It's looks like a fungus that grows on our trees. But it's the peel. Are you going to eat the peel?
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,741 Member
    When you're ready to eat one, you'll be able to see how the actual banana looks. Don't eat if it has the raised, green dots on the edible part. :) Otherwise, the peel is nature's raincoat.

    Or something.
  • XnRGrandpa
    XnRGrandpa Posts: 62 Member
    zamphir66 wrote: »
    I saw on facebook that people are injecting AIDS bacteria into bananas. I wouldn't eat them.

    An old hoax - Hoax-Slayer: ‘Bananas Injected With HIV’ Hoax Warning
  • stillnot2late
    stillnot2late Posts: 385 Member
    I saw enough pictures of bananas with spiders that it freaked me out enough to leave them alone. I'm talking years and years of leaving alone of the bananas.
  • MaiLinna
    MaiLinna Posts: 580 Member
    ponycyndi wrote: »
    I see the green dots, but I don't know what they are. It's looks like a fungus that grows on our trees. But it's the peel. Are you going to eat the peel?

    Right? That's why I'm trying to ask around first. I did eat one. It wasn't ripe enough yet.
  • XnRGrandpa
    XnRGrandpa Posts: 62 Member
    You can always take them back to the grocer and ask them. They may know or even replace them.
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    A quick internet search says that it happens when bananas are forced to ripen with gasses. The outside may look ripe and the inside may not be. And that sounds like what you experienced.
  • MaiLinna
    MaiLinna Posts: 580 Member
    XnRGrandpa wrote: »
    You can always take them back to the grocer and ask them. They may know or even replace them.

    I don't speak Mandarin sadly.
  • MaiLinna
    MaiLinna Posts: 580 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    A quick internet search says that it happens when bananas are forced to ripen with gasses. The outside may look ripe and the inside may not be. And that sounds like what you experienced.

    Yup, like, as long as it's not fuzzy on the inside, imma go ahead and eat them when they ripen more.
  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,225 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    A quick internet search says that it happens when bananas are forced to ripen with gasses. The outside may look ripe and the inside may not be. And that sounds like what you experienced.

    Yep, was just gonna comment on the same thing. It is apparently quite common with organic bananas for them to be "force ripened" like that. That's what causes the green spots.
  • Ultima_Morpha
    Ultima_Morpha Posts: 892 Member
    edited July 2016
    Wynterbourne wrote: »
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    A quick internet search says that it happens when bananas are forced to ripen with gasses. The outside may look ripe and the inside may not be. And that sounds like what you experienced.

    Yep, was just gonna comment on the same thing. It is apparently quite common with organic bananas for them to be "force ripened" like that. That's what causes the green spots.

    It is common with all bananas. Unless you're picking them yourself nearly every single banana sold in the world is picked green/underripe.
  • 35dollars
    35dollars Posts: 832 Member
    edited July 2016
    stillnot2late wrote: »
    I saw enough pictures of bananas with spiders that it freaked me out enough to leave them alone. I'm talking years and years of leaving alone of the bananas.

    That is the big problem - inside the bunch of ripe bananas, hides the deadly black tarantula!










    (Though, it has to be said, that daylight come and I wanna go home)

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