On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:05:18 -0800 (PST), Helpful person
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 4:12:01 PM UTC-5, Travis McGee wrote:
>> http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydis...119-story.html
>>
>> Thirty minutes into the market last Wednesday, customers had plundered
>> Sheaffer's supply of tree-ripened, canary yellow bananas, leaving behind
>> boxes of unripe green clusters, called hands, for latecomers.
>>
>Bananas seem to fair very well being picked green. I've never had a tree ripened one. Is there a big difference?

Bananas are never harvested ripe because the stalk ripens
progressively, and ripe bananas are too delicate to transport, plus
when left to plantation ripen the tropics critters will eat them all,
it's also very dangerous to harvest ripened bananas, the stalks and
leaves hide poisonous snakes waiting to sieze banana loving
critters... bananas don't grow on trees, they grow on the world's
largest herbaceous plants.