How To Quickly Ripen Green Bananas

Usually you race to eat a banana before it over-ripens but on the rare occasion of buying green bananas, you need a ripened one right now.  Rather than wait a couple of days for nature to do its business, you can speed things up with the help of a paper bag.  Fruits ripen when starches turn into sugars and that happens thanks to ethylene, a gas released in the process.  By placing a banana in a paper bag, this gas is semi-trapped and therefore speeds up the ripening process. But there is even a faster method is to use your oven. Warm unpeeled bananas on a baking sheet in an oven at 250°F for 15-20 minutes. It's not quite as effective as letting bananas ripen naturally, but it will soften and sweeten your fruit in a pinch.

SOURCE: The Healthy

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