slo’s MONDAY poll - Bananas (ripeness level)

[slo]

What ripeness level do you like your banana to be when you eat it?


For Me....slightly green
I will eat the banana that is fully yellow and even when it’s going slightly brown (I’m not going to throw them away), but I would never pick those types over slightly green.
If my bananas get to brown, and I have time, then they turn into muffins.

 

[Disneylover99]

Yellow bananas with small brown spots

 

[Kitty 34]

Yellow and firm

 

[Schneewittchen37]

I agree slightly green is good. Makes my mouth itch though.

 

[design_mom]

Slightly green is best... full yellow is OK. When the peel won't come off easily they're not ripe enough. If the "strings" don't come off easily, they're too ripe.

 

[Micca]

I'm mentioned in a Slo's Poll, I have arrived!

 

[mrodgers]

I didn't know they made yellow bananas any more as all that's in the grocery stores are this color -->

 

[Meriweather]

slightly green to yellow but not turning brown. I don't like them at all mushy.
We just them slightly brown in smoothies and if they go farther (and they really turn fast here), they go into bread or muffins

 

[ronandannette]

Just ripe enough to get the peel off - still a little starchy rather than soft and overly sweet. Can’t even stand the smell l when they start to go brown let alone eat them. And am I the only one who has noticed how fast bananas ripen/over-ripen these days? I swear they didn’t used to do that.

 

[scbruno]

Prefer yellow but will eat slightly green.

 

[mumto3girls]

Another one that prefers slightly green but will eat yellow. I am actually not a big fan of bananas, so many other types of fruit I’d rather eat. DH and 2 of my girls like them a lot though.

 

[NYCgrrl]

I buy a bunch yellow with green stripes and eat one immediately.
The rest go into the freezer for smoothie use since they’ll turn brown anyway.

 

[fla4fun]

I can’t stand bananas. It’s a texture thing.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Yellow, a few touches of brown.

 

[fly girl]

Yellow. Cannot stand the texture if it has any green. Blech!

 

[prairie_girl]

I’d rather starve than eat a banana. The sound of someone eating one turns my stomach

 

[lucas]

Slightly green. If it has speckles, I save it for dh!

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Yellow with some little brown spots for eating. From time to time I buy bananas that are already turning brown and let them go a little further than that for banana bread. Overripe ones are best for that.

 

[BrianL]

I'd say pure yellow is optimum, but I can go either way from slightly green to slightly brown (spots).

 

[ronandannette]

I’d rather starve than eat a banana. The sound of someone eating one turns my stomach

I am ignorant of how eating a banana specifically sounds...please describe.