Spray to stop bananas rotting: New product can keep fruit fresh for two weeks

Dailymail.co.uk ^ | 08/22/12 | By Fiona Macrae Science Correspondent

[southern rock]

Ok, this really bothers me. If this spray is used, bananas would no longer be suitable for vegetarians and vegans, not to mention people with shellfish allergies. Pretty disgusting. I would never knowingly buy fruit tainted this way. Please, just leave fruit and vegatables alone already! Our food is tainted enough.

[TribalPrincess2U]

2 or 3 days? They look fine and not too yellow at the store and by the time I’m washing them (I wash everything) they are already looking bruised. What’s up with that?

[JRandomFreeper]

Our food is tainted enough.

Yeah, because food in the 1850s was so much safer and better, if you don't count the ergot fungus outbreaks, milk fever, bad meat, and high number of food poisoning deaths, and little stuff like that.

Food fetishists are a half bubble out of plumb.

/johnny

[ansel12]

They’ll last a fortnight, that is funny.

[I see my hands]

"no longer be suitable for vegetarians and vegans"

Aw, that's a shame.

[knarf]

Blimey!

They downt know 'ow t'make 'nana bread?

[Praxeologue]

If customers want a product, the market will provide it.

Don't interfere.

[JRandomFreeper]

Food fetishists have NO sense of humor. They obsess over everthing they eat. They are a pain in the arse.

They are also generally pretty clueless about the real history of food.

I should have compassion, but I just tend to point and laugh.

/johnny

[DIRTYSECRET]

Think: Sex toys.

[driftdiver]

why not just eat em?

[JRandomFreeper]

Don't interfere.

That's the hardest thing for nanny staters (including food fetishists) to do. In fact, they don't.

There should be a law, and men with guns to enforce it.... ;)

/johnny

[Cvengr]

I noticed this with bananas recently. Appear to be just turning yellow from green, by a day or two, peal them and they are bruised in inner core already rotting. Sliced them and ate for 2 days, 2nd day I felt sick from them. No more of those for me.

[driftdiver]

yeah chickens rinsed with Clorox are so much better

[steve86]

They look fine and not too yellow at the store and by the time I’m washing them (I wash everything) they are already looking bruised.

Try the gentle fabric cycle. Much gentler wash action.

[tbw2]

I think it was Michael Savage who pointed out that morality has shifted from sex to food. A housewife in the 1950s, unless Kosher and Jewish, didn’t care where her food came from or its ingredients, but was careful on staying chaste until marriage and faithful while married. Food was free for all while sex was constrained. Now we worry about whether it is locally grown, organic, have fights over vegetarian and vegan as holier than thou, but sex is a free for all.
We moved our morality from the bedroom to the kitchen.

[southern rock]

The spray, which is being developed at Tianjin University of Science and Technology in China

All I need to know.

[JRandomFreeper]

I rinse chickens that I kill here on the property with Clorox solution. My body can handle the chloride (which goes away over time), but it can't handle salmonella.

/johnny

[southern rock]

Aw, that's a shame

It is. Bananas should be vegetarian. What a concept!!

[driftdiver]

You might try cooking the chickens

[southern rock]

why not just eat em?

Why should fruit be tainted with fish parts?