Ripening bananas quickly

Abstract

Many institutions, such as corrective service institutions and boarding schools are grow­ing eating bananas to supply part of their fruit needs (see the article by Bourke, 1978). At these institutions, it is important that there are enough bananas to -give all of the students, patients or prisoners at least one banana each at a meal. This means that a lot of bananas have to be ripened at once. This article looks at ways of ripening large quantities of banana fruit quickly and at the same time.