Bananas have a finite shelf life, often becoming overripe before we have time to eat them. Making banana bread, smoothies, ...

Plantains are cooked green, semi-ripe or fully-ripe. Treat them like a starchy vegetable and use in savoury or sweet dishes. Before cooking, peel by top and tailing the fruit, then cut along the ...

And did you know a plantain plant can produce the starchy fruit for up to 100 years. You can eat it at different stages of ripeness: when it’s green (almost ripe,) when it is yellow (ripe,) or ...

Avoid storing bananas near ripe fruit as they release a lot of ethylene, which will cause the other fruit to ripen further. Lemon or lime juice, natural yoghurt or soured cream all bring out the ...

What’s more, pectin — a fiber found in both ripe and unripe bananas ... If you’d like to include unripe bananas in your diet, try using them as you’d use plantains.