Bananas will stay 'fresher for longer' if kept away from one place in the kitchen

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People typically store their bananas in a specific part of the kitchen - their fruit bowl - but this is actually one of the worst places for them to rest.Food expert Katherine Kyle from Magical Life Fruit shared that one of the banana storage "secrets" that "nobody tells you" is that bananas should always be kept away from other fruits.The expert said: "Keep your bananas separate from all other fruits including other ripe bananas.

Fruits let off ethylene gas when they are ripening, so keeping ripe fruit with unripe fruit will cause the unripe fruit to ripen more quickly."Ethylene gas is a hormone found in different fruits that helps them grow - but can also speed up the ripening process if they are stored together, reports the Express.So, how do I store my bananas to keep them fresher for longer?

If you want your bananas to stay yellow then cover them up.Katherine said: "The main way in which bananas ripen is by releasing gasses from the stems.

So if you cover up the stems, you’re able to slow down the ripening process."All you need to do is snap the bananas from each other and wrap the stems individually in clingfilm.