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Bananas have several health benefits and a strong flavour loved by many, but one thing they’re not so favoured for is their shelf life.<\/p>\n
The soft fruit can become bruised and mushy when moved around, while the outer peel turns blotchy and brown in just days.<\/p>\n
While many think that keeping bananas hanging over the fruit bowl is the best place for them, it’s not always true if longevity is the goal.<\/p>\n
In fact, according to one health and safety expert, there’s a much better place to keep them.<\/p>\n
Speaking previously to Express.co.uk, Gary Ellis, director at CE Safety shared his simple food storage hack to preserve bananas at their perfect ripeness.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/strong> Make creamy scrambled eggs with unusual ingredient – ‘so fluffy’<\/strong><\/p>\n Gary claimed: “Bananas emitting ethylene gas is what turns them brown, so in theory to keep them ripe, you should prevent the gas from travelling down and around the fruit.<\/p>\n “One key rule with bananas is to keep them away from other produce.”<\/p>\n That means ditching the fruit bowl and stowing bananas well away from oranges, plums and other quick-ripening fruits, but also apples, figs, peaches and avocados.<\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong> ![](\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/14\/590x\/secondary\/HOW-TO-STORE-BANANAS-FRUIT-5101885.jpg?r=1701864660701\")
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