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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
question about banana's
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The answer is: no, you don't use an apostrophe in bananas.
Yes, I know... I'm a pedant. I maintain that it's what separates us from the animals.
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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
does anyone have any clue as to why, when you buy fresh, green banana's and peel them the skin is thick and somewhat rigid, but when you peel a ripe one, it's thin and flimsy?
i was thinking it would be because it had dried out, but i would expect that to make it thinner (less water in it) and stiffer.
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If I remember correctly (I wondered about this a while ago and asked a biologist), most fruits soften as they ripen, and this includes the skin, flesh and any stems or leaves attached. This can be due to water loss, conversion of starch to sugar and the breakdown of the rigid walls of the cells.