Food storage hack to ‘keep bananas fresh for seven days’ stops them going brown

Bananas are tasty treats, but when they get soft and brown they are a little less tasty. Now, one content creator has a hack to resolve the troublesome issue.

Armen Adamjan is the clever content creator behind Creative Explained. He shares cool hacks, tips, and tricks on his TikTok where he has a whopping 4.9 million followers and 66.8 million likes.

Armen wants to help us waste less food and live more green with his smart food storage ideas. He detailed a way to keep bananas fresh for a whole week.

He said: “You ever buy bananas and they just ripen up way too fast before you get to eat them? Well, this is what you do.”

Armen says to wrap a certain part of the banana in plastic wrap to keep them fresh. He said: “Separate all the bananas and then wrap each banana stem with plastic wrap.”

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“Doing this slows down the ethylene production and keeps your bananas fresh for seven days.”

If you need your bananas ripe quicker, Armen has a trick for that too. He shared: “If for whatever reason you actually need them to be ripe, just throw them in the oven for 15 minutes at 350 degrees.”

Other fans also gave their own ideas on how to stop bananas from getting ripe too soon.

One person shared: “Put aluminium foil at the top of the bunch and they last longer (stay ripe).” Another reader suggested: “Putting bananas in the fridge helps their life span too.”

A third tip was: “You can use beeswax paper it’s easier to wrap so you don’t have to loop around a ton and you use less. Plus it’s eco-friendly and reusable.”

“Don’t even have to separate them. just wrap the stems well and it will last for over a week!” one person advised.

How to keep bananas fresh

Chilling bananas in the fridge can stop them from ripening further. Even if the skin turns black, the fruit inside is probably still good to eat. If your banana is peeled, sprinkling lemon juice on it could slow down ripening.

Similarly, soaking peeled fruit in vinegar can help to keep it fresh. Just remember to wash the fruit thoroughly before you eat it, or it might taste unpleasant.

Of course, if you want to keep your bananas fresh for a long time, they will last 30 days in the freezer. Defrost at room temperature – use frozen bananas in your smoothies.