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The Fresser

ByThe Fresser, Victoria Prever

Opinion

You'd be bananas to waste these

Don't throw that bruised fruit in the bin! We have the perfect recipe for any less than perfect specimens.

May 17, 2017 09:51
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1 min read

You may have read the headlines in the last few days about bananas.

Apparently Sainsbury’s feel they need rescuing. Although the average Briton eats three of the yummy, yellow fruit each week and 20 per cent of us tucks into at least one a week, as many as a third of us BINS them for even the tiniest blemish. I thought it was only my six-year old who couldn’t get past the bruise.

Worse still, 13 per cent of those surveyed throw the fruits away if they are even a little green. Do they not know that it will be a perfect sunny yellow specimen in no time at all? Patience is all that’s needed in that situation.

For the overripe, here are some of our favourite recipes- meaning no banana needs to meet an early end: