Why do bananas turn black in the fridge?

[Toxick]

And I don't want to hear any of this "science" crap about how cell walls are broken in the cold and mixing proteins.


No, I want to know what really happens?


What are the fridge gnomes doing to them and why do they keep doing this to my bananas?

 

[kwillia]

It's a basic subconscious life-saving mechanism engrained in the brains of bananas from way back in prehistoric banana days. Black absorbs heat so bananas, which are kin to chameleons, turn their skins black so they can survive in frigid conditions. That's why if you listen closely you can hear them scream when you bite them.

 

[limblips]

It's a basic subconscious life-saving mechanism engrained in the brains of bananas from way back in prehistoric banana days. Black absorbs heat so bananas, which are kin to chameleons, turn their skins black so they can survive in frigid conditions. That's why if you listen closely you can hear them scream when you bite them.

A very lucid and well thought out response.

 

[GWguy]

The fridge gnomes are just as perplexed by trying to figure out if the light goes out when you close the door. So while the door is closed, they unscrew the bulb and plug in the banana trying to see if the bulb had burned out. It sparks and spits and gets charred in the process.

 

[Toxick]

It's a basic subconscious life-saving mechanism engrained in the brains of bananas from way back in prehistoric banana days. Black absorbs heat so bananas, which are kin to chameleons, turn their skins black so they can survive in frigid conditions. That's why if you listen closely you can hear them scream when you bite them.

I was really hoping to avoid a sciency answer - cause they're usually bs - but I can accept this.

 

[slotpuppy]

I was really hoping to avoid a sciency answer - cause they're usually bs - but I can accept this.

Kwilla is wrong. When you close the fridge, it traps the free radicals inside when they bounce off the walls of the fridge increasing their speed exponentially. As the free radicals pass through the bananas, they burn the cell walls of the pigments in the banana. The cell walls turn black, causing the pigmentation of the banana to change from yellow to black.

This is how black bananas are made.

 

[ZARA]

They are fermenting and preparing themselves to become alcohol so they can get jiggy with WR's milkshakes.

 

[aps45819]

They turn black in the fridge for the same reason they turn black outside the fridge.

It's the nature of bananas

 

[bcp]

This thread is racist.

 

[slotpuppy]

This thread is racist.

Why, cause is talks about black and bananas.

 

[Mr_Bond_Got_Em]

What other color would they turn,....white?

 

[ZARA]

What other color would they turn,....white?

Yellow if they were green when you placed them in the fridge.

 

[JeJeTe]

Yellow if they were green when you placed them in the fridge.

I like eating my bananas when they still have a tinge of green.

 

[Misfit]

I like eating my bananas when they still have a tinge of green.

I love bananas because they have no bones.

 

[kwillia]

I love bananas because they have no bones.

I also only ever buy boneless chicken. Boneless chickens taste better than chickens with bones.

 

[JeJeTe]

I love bananas because they have no bones.

Racist. What you got against bones?

 

[Toxick]

Why, cause is talks about black and bananas.

Now that you mention it....

The black bananas are way bigger than the yellow ones.

 

[b23hqb]

Now that you mention it....

The black bananas are way bigger than the yellow ones.

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[bcp]

Racist. What you got against bones?

Its because black people have bones.

 

[bcp]

The blackening process is caused by ployphenols in the banana, the production of polyphenols is increased with cooler temperatures.