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My grocery store sells a decent selection of organic stuff mixed in with the regular produce, usually at about twice the price. My stepdaughter (almost 8) is aware that I'm usually quite frugal, so she asked why I was buying the "expensive bananas" when those others were clearly "on sale."
I decided to try an experiment for her--well, sort of for me too, I knew what the results would be but not how dramatic they'd be. I bought some of both kinds. The organic bananas were solid yellow, with an extremely light freckling of brown spots. The non-organic bananas were still completely green.
Three days later, the non-organic bananas were mostly brown, and the insides were brown and inedible. The organic bananas lasted a week and a half, and even by the end when the peels were getting pretty darn brown, the insides were still mostly fresh.
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