Good News for Banana Lovers: Help May Be on the Way to Slow That Rapid Over-Ripening
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 09:30
in Mathematics & Economics
A solution finally may be at hand for the number one consumer gripe about America's favorite fresh fruit, bananas, and their tendency to ripen, soften and rot into an unappetizing mush, seemingly in the blink of an eye. Scientists speaking here today at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, described efforts to develop a spray-on coating that would delay the ripening of bananas.