So we can now eat bananas, skin and all. Farmers in Japan have recently revealed that they have found a way to grow bananas that have edible outer skin. Because we are all dying to eat the skin of our bananas aren’t we?
The farmers, who work for Japanese company D&T, have found a process that dates back to the ice age (around 20,000 years ago), whereby they can speed up the process of growing bananas from approximately two years to four months.
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So, here’s how that process works. The bananas, dubbed Mongee (Okayama for ‘incredible’), are grown using a ‘Freeze Thaw Awakening’ process. Typically bananas are grown in tropical climates, but the saplings of this new breed of fruit are frozen at -60°C and then planted when thawed, which apparently recreates the growing process of the ice age. This then encourages the fruit to grow a lot faster and… we have the Mongee!
HI Kyosyke ! Have you tasted it? Mongee Banana, the most interresting thing about this banana is that you can eat the skin! I’ts only grown in OKAYAMA Perfecture, and they only sell 10 bananas per week. D&T Farm in Okayama.@ffffujiwara pic.twitter.com/jLKj1FCnSx
— hapa (@hapahr) January 27, 2018
The crazy thing about all of this however is that the process was sort of developed by accident. Technical Development Manager at D&T, Mr Setsuzo Tanaka, started all of this as a sort of research hobby. Little did he know the crazy shit that he was about to kick-off!
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