Bananas with or without the red tip. What is the difference?
Published 1 year, 11 months ago in Shopping.Does anybody know the difference between bananas with or without the red tip?
I’ve also asked a person who works at the produce section in safeway and even he said that he had no idea! :O)
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Maybe if you ask someone in a fruit shop, they should be able to tell you. Supermarket and Department Store Employees usually don’t know what they are selling. Well that’s how I see it anyway. To those Employees who actually make an effort to know what they are selling “Good On Ya”
Ah, well, you need to look at :
http://www.eco-banana.com.au/index.html
The makers of the red tipped banana! I had heard that the wax stops nasty bugs from attacking the flower end of the banana, but … it’s all for show! A very distinctive way of making their bananas, different from sticking on a sticker.
For ideas on how to recycle the was (cos I know you are) see my rather old web site here :
http://home.mira.net/~paulinel/bananawax/banana1.htm
Isn’t it great to get affordable bananas again?
From memory wax tipped banana is supposed to be organic and better for you. However it is not as healthly for your wallet. It is great to finally have bananas back in the affordable fruit category again.
Ding Ding Ding! we have a winner! Yes the red tipped bananas are organic
yes, the red-tipped ones are organic.
I work in a fruit shop, and as far as I know, the only difference is the price. Maybe the wax is there so customers don’t throw in the eco bananas with the normal ones.
Initially it was thought that the red wax signified organic but that is not the case it is just used to identify a particular grower. Good marketing ploy. There was a program on it sometime ago. It might have been Landline.
So with all these diffrent answers does anyone know the real answer? Hang on I’ll call the banana republic!
i say just eat and enjoy make a bannana spring roll cut a banana in halve roll in sugar then roll him in a spring roll wraper cook the roll until goldrn brown serve with ice cream and enjoy
In regards to the bananas with the wax on them, the red wax tipped bananas used to be organic,now it is used more for marketing as the wax is a easy tamper proof identifier so a casheir can tell which are which and charge the right price. You can get little bananas with blue wax and green and they are the eco bananas from somewhere in Queensland from a specific company. Not all chain store staff are ignorant.
Red tipped bananas were the brain-child of a NTH-QLD banana grower. The family wanted to grow an organic banana for the Japanese market. Their plantation only uses natural fertilises, pesticides to grow their fruit. The red tip I.D.’s it in shops and in the Japanese market as ecorganic. The red tip is wax, the same wax as used in covering cheeses. This Banana should have more flavour than your every-day cav. banana and is worth the extra couple of dollars per K.G.