Is it possible to eat black bananas and what are the limitations?
Bananas are a very common and all-time favorite type of fruit. However, they are not perfect. These fruits have one unpleasant feature: they are able to turn black.What can be done with darkened bananas? This will tell our article.
What is the reason why fruits turn black?
Making purchases in the supermarket or on the market, you probably noticed that bananas have a heterogeneous color. Even those fruits that are located in the same bundle may have different shades. Let's see why this happens.
After the bananas have been picked, they will keep a pleasant yellow color with pronounced shades of green for the whole 3 days. By the way, some prefer to eat just such bananas - hard and tart to the taste. Then, after 7 days of storage, the fruit will finally turn yellow and become soft. 3 days after this (that is, 10 days after the fetus was picked), it will begin to darken, and cracks on the peel may also appear at this time.
As you can see, in the darkening of the product, in fact, there is nothing wrong. This is a natural process. As in all organic products, rotting begins in bananas (primarily in the peel). It should be noted that the process of decay is accelerated if they are stored at high humidity. That is, if after 10 days have passed since the purchase, you notice that black bananas are in your vase, do not panic - nature takes its toll.
In addition to natural causes, fruits can darken if their storage conditions have been violated. So, do not freeze the fruit (which is why you should not store fruit in the refrigerator). Also, they can not push (if you went to the supermarket for large purchases, do not put bananas on the bottom of the package).
Eating
After we figured out that darkening is a whole natural process, let's see if you can eat black fruit. The answer is unequivocal - yes, you can eat them. The only exceptions are those fruits on whose peel dots, stripes and cracks have appeared (cracks are particularly dangerous). The fact is that various pathogens or even insects can penetrate through them (into the flesh) of the fruit.
If an insect penetrates the fruit, it can lay its larvae inside a banana, which makes the fruit unfit for human consumption. In general, it is important to say that in the history of medicine there were practically no cases of poisoning with blackened bananas.
What can be cooked from them?
If you do not want to eat fresh blackened fruit, then you can quickly and easily cook a tasty and healthy dessert. For example, with the addition of milk and cocoa powder, you can make a milkshake or ice cream. To do this, you should turn bananas into a puree, add a little cocoa, pour the milk over the mixture and beat the mixture with a mixer or blender. Optionally, in this dish you can also add sugar.
If you want to make ice cream, put the resulting milkshake in the freezer for a few hours. Also, turning a soft blackened banana into a puree, adding flour and eggs to it, you can make pancakes or pancakes for breakfast. This breakfast can be decorated with melted chocolate or powdered sugar. In combination with freshly brewed coffee or fragrant tea, it will become one of the most favorite dishes of your household.
The following tip is for those who love baking. So, use the darkened bananas can be used to make banana bread or muffins. You should step by step follow traditional recipes, but use blackened bananas.
In addition, they can be added to the jelly. Even if you are preparing jelly bags, which are sold in almost every supermarket, dessert can be supplemented with bananas or banana puree. At the same time, it is important to remember that even for cooking, which will be heat treated, you should not use fermented bananas (you can smell these fruits by smell). You are unlikely to be poisoned, but an unpleasant taste at the dish will still be present.
If the condition of blackened bananas causes you to doubt (an unpleasant smell emanates from the fruit or traces of insects are visible), then it is better to refuse to eat such fruits. It is contraindicated to eat them to children or people who have problems with the work of the digestive system and the gastrointestinal tract.
As you can see, blackened bananas do not pose any health hazard and can be used both fresh and as an ingredient for the preparation of desserts and pastries.
A detailed story about bananas and a little trick to storing these fruits is given in the video below.
