BANANAS

Bananas for eating as a fresh fruit, are best when fully ripe. Suit the colour of the banana skin to the use. If the banana you buy in the supermarket is tipped with green, the banana is partially ripe. The pulp will be firm, starchy and slightly tart. They can be used to bake or fry, cooking will bring out a different, delicious flavour and a must sliced into a curry. An all yellow banana is ready to eat and can be used as an ingredient in baking. A banana flecked with brown is fully ripe, and at its best for eating, infant feeding and a cooking ingredient. The flavour is sweet, mellow and thoroughly digestible and delicious in fruit cups, salads, milk shakes and desserts.