You'd be bananas to waste these

A survey by Government advisory body, WRAP. (the Waste and Resources Action Programme) has revealed that the average Briton eats three of the yummy, yellow fruit each week, and that 20% of us tucks into at least one a week, as many as a third of us BINS them for even the tiniest blemish.

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

In an effort to help the hapless fruit, Sainsbury's have set up pop up 'banana rescue points in their stores'. We've plenty of recipe ideas here at the JC.

Here are some of our favourites, so no banana need end its days consigned to compost: 

The healthy one
Lisa Roukin's yummy Green Goddess smoothie will leave you full of beans - and bananas. 

Indulgent ice cream
A dish of Greg Malouf's luscious and cooling banana ice cream with salted date caramel uses no less than 400g of the yellow fruits.  

Prize-winning bake
This show-stopping banana and chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting by Suzy Pelta is ideal for a Shabbat tea. 

Fast fix
Banana bread is the fastest way of using up the really ripe fruits - the ones that are almost black and mushy. They're the best ones anway. Victoria Prever's recipe spices it up with cardamom. 

No sugar, full of flavour
It doesn't have to be an unhealthy. Laura Southern's banana bread contains no refined sugar.