What are the methods for ripening bananas?

Banana is a fruit with high nutritional value. First of all, it can help you lose weight. Therefore, many people who want to lose weight will choose not to eat a regular meal at dinner, but use bananas to solve the hunger problem. Secondly, it can also promote digestion to achieve the effect of lowering blood pressure and relieving constipation, so bananas are the first choice for many people with indigestion. However, for many people who grow bananas, in order to sell bananas at the best time, they begin to look for various physical methods to ripen bananas. So what are the methods of ripening bananas? We can store raw bananas together with other fruits, such as apples, kiwis, citrus and other ripe fruits. Here are some methods to ripen bananas.

1. Put the bananas in the bag. Boxes are also available. Everyone can use local materials.

Be careful to avoid using contaminated bags or bags with wax layers, as this will affect the release of ethylene gas from bananas.

Ethylene gas is a plant hormone that promotes fruit ripening.

2. Seal ripe fruits such as apples, kiwis, and citrus fruits together with raw bananas in a bag

Be careful to use the ripest fruit you can find, or cut the fruit to stimulate the release of more ethylene gas.

3. Make sure the ambient temperature is controlled at around 20oC. Higher temperature can speed up ripening, but it may also result in uneven ripening.

4. Avoid moisture to prevent mold.

5. If it is too dry, you can put a glass of water

6. Always observe the temperature, adaptability and ripening conditions. Check on the bananas once or twice a day until the bag is fully ripe.

7. Generally, the bananas can be ripened after 48 hours. If the bananas are very green, the ripening time will be longer.

Nutritional Value

1. It can help you lose weight

Bananas are very effective for weight loss because they are low in calories and rich in dietary fiber. Bananas are very sweet, so people tend to think that they must be high in calories. In fact, a banana (net weight about 100 grams) has only 87 calories, which is about half the calorie content of a meal of white rice (150 grams, 220 calories).

2. Bananas can be used as breakfast and diet food

In our busy lives, more and more people are using health foods or supplements to supplement their unbalanced diets. Bananas contain almost all vitamins and minerals, so it is easy to get a variety of nutrients from them. Bananas contain considerable amounts of potassium and magnesium. Potassium can prevent blood pressure from rising and muscle cramps, while magnesium has the effect of eliminating fatigue.

3. Promote digestion

Since bananas are easily digested and absorbed, everyone from children to the elderly can eat them safely and get balanced nutrition. Recently, more and more people skip breakfast, and breakfast is the source of energy for the day. Therefore, bananas, which have immediate energy and can maintain energy for a long time, have become the most suitable food for breakfast. In addition, because bananas are low-calorie foods, even people who are trying to lose weight can eat them without worry.

4. Bananas lower blood pressure and promote bowel movements

From a nutritional point of view, bananas are beneficial fruits rich in starch. From a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, bananas are sweet and cold in nature. They can clear away heat and moisten the intestines, and promote gastrointestinal motility, but they are not suitable for people with spleen deficiency and diarrhea.

Precautions

1. Maintain the temperature and humidity as much as possible. Too high or too low will affect the ripening effect.

2. Avoid contact with moldy items

3. Apple boxes/breathable paper bags can be used as ripening tools. If plastic bags are used, ethylene will be reduced.