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# Bananas should be kept form other fruit...
...as they produce an enzyme that stimulates ripening in them - unless you want to riopen fruit. Handy with solid avacados.

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(, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 8:57, archived)
# it oozes out through their skin
so you shouldn't keep them in a bowl 'cos sinks & hangs around.
(, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 9:08, archived)
# ethylene gas
controls ripening in fruits.

which is why bananas get there own hanger in posh fruit bowls :)
(, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 9:26, archived)
# snot an enzyme
it's a gas.

/pedant.

Edit: see above. See?
(, Wed 19 Nov 2003, 9:29, archived)