The recent price of bananas in New York is at $0.86 per pound according to an online food price list, and the global price of the fruit is reportedly increasing. This rising cost makes you regret finding a rotten banana in your homes.
What if you can "resurrect" these rotten bananas and make them edible again like fresh? One YouTube user made a viral video of how this can be possible. Titled "Life Hack! Zombie Banana," the video tutorial puts an end to the dilemma of throwing away these rotten bananas, and reviving them instead by using simple home materials.
YouTube user Brandon Queen shares the idea of only using material found at home to make all of these possible: Ziploc bags, some amount of uncooked rice and a hair blower.
He started by showing a rotten, inedible banana which peel has already been covered in black. The YouTube video showed the first step which is to place the banana inside a Ziploc bag, and adding around half a cup to two cups of uncooked rice with the rotten banana.
He then zipped the rotten banana with the uncooked rice inside the bag, and leaving it for about an hour. Once done, he removed the banana from the bag and used the hair blower set in warm to blow air to the already black banana and showed the results.
With comments ranging from tagging the YouTube video of rotten bananas being made "fresh" again as "black magic" to naming it "witchcraft," the man behind the trick allegedly was able to turn the already black and unripe banana back to its yellow color - and even peeling it and grabbing a bite!
But, is it really possible? One website that posts science content is doubtful about the YouTube video of the rotten banana.
"Bananas are classed as a climacteric fruit, which means that they continue to ripen after picking," website IFL Science said.
Once the fruit is picked, the website said various enzymes break down the cell walls and "soften the fruit, and degrade the chlorophyll in the fruit, which causes color changes. As these processes go on and the cells within the banana denature, it gradually becomes rotten.
"We actually did try this ourselves in the office, and were left with nothing but a still-rotten banana," the website said. "Perhaps surprisingly, we simply have another case of the internet leading us up the garden path for reasons that only the individuals coming up with this rubbish will know."
IFL Science said reviving a rotten banana cannot be done, adding that "placing the banana in the rice removes moisture from the skin, and gently heating the banana back the normal temperature may reverse the effects of cooling on the skin, restoring the color."
You can try it for yourself.
"That, or it's simply lighting or computer trickery," the website added.
