Are curved or straight bananas tastier?
1. Are curved or straight bananas more delicious?
The reason why bananas have different curved and straight shapes is due to the time of development as well as the position of the banana on the banana bunch.
Due to the impact of gravity, the whole large bunch of bananas will tend to grow straight down. During the development process, the bananas gradually curve up to receive natural light. Normally, naturally grown bananas will curve. The older the banana, the more curved it is.
The most delicious is to eat naturally ripe bananas. However, ripe bananas will be soft, easily crushed, cannot be preserved for a long time, so it is difficult to transport, and the market value is not high. Therefore, buyers often harvest when the bananas are old enough but not fully ripe.
Straight bananas are those that do not receive enough light for the development process. In addition, they can also be bananas that are harvested early or due to human intervention during the development process. You can easily find straight bananas on sale in supermarkets.
In general, straight bananas will not be as sweet and fragrant as naturally ripened bananas.
2. Tips for buying naturally ripened bananas:
- Check the color of the stem
If you see a banana that is yellow but the stem is still green, you should not buy it because this type is not fully ripe, and it will not be sweet enough to eat. You should choose a banana with a yellow stem, the more yellow the color, the riper and more delicious the banana is.
- Smell the aroma
Naturally ripened bananas will give off a clear, pleasant aroma. If you see a banana with a yellow peel but no aroma, you should not buy it because this type will definitely not be sweet.
- Look at the edges
Naturally ripened bananas will be quite smooth and flat, with a round, even shape. Meanwhile, bananas that still have edges are usually not ripe enough.
If you want to eat them right away, choose bananas that are evenly ripe but still firm, with no signs of being rotten or crushed. If you cannot eat them right away, you can buy bananas that are still a little green. Bananas you buy will ripen and be ready to use after just a few days. In particular, when buying bananas to burn incense on Tet, you need to choose green bananas so they can be displayed for a long time.
