When it comes to doing your food shopping do you tend to throw some of it away?
As the cost of living crisis is hitting most of us across the UK, Brits are looking for new ways to reduce their waste.
Whether it is buying less and creating a shopping list or freezing foods to use at a later date it is saving time, and money and reducing the overall impact of how much we throw away.
However, experts have shared their latest advice for making avocados ripen “faster” with their simple method.
And all you need is a common food that most of us probably already have in our fruit bowl already.
The advice comes from Too Good To Go which is a global surplus food marketplace that helps combat food waste. The team shared that bananas can make avocados ripen faster. Here’s how.
As one of the fruits that gives off ethylene, bananas are the perfect partner for hard, unripe avocados.
By storing ripe bananas with unripe avocado, you can speed up the ripening process naturally, so you get to eat them a lot sooner.
By placing bananas and avocados in a brown paper bag, the bag speeds up the process even more by trapping the ethylene gas inside. Just be sure to not leave them too long otherwise your avocado could overripen.
Meanwhile, bananas can be a huge culprit for food waste because they ripen so quickly.
First, remove them from plastic packaging as the lack of breathability from plastic packaging makes for poor airflow.
Also as they are stored in bunches, it means people suddenly have six ripe bananas that need eating quickly!
You can avoid this problem by separating your bananas from their bunch and wrapping each stem individually using reusable baking parchment.
Bananas release a ripening agent called ethylene into the air, and so by wrapping a banana’s stem, you can slow this process down.
