Why do bananas get brown spots?
Bananas get brown spots because they're getting riper and sweeter.
Pip’s answer
- Bananas get brown spots because they're getting riper and sweeter.
- Inside, the banana slowly changes some of its food into sugar.
- Air touches the peel, and little patches slowly turn brown.
- Hehe, a spotty banana is the sweetest banana of all!
For grown-ups
As bananas ripen, enzymes convert starch into sugars, making them sweeter and softer. The peel's green chlorophyll breaks down, revealing yellow, and then sugars and enzymes react with oxygen to form brown spots. Spotty bananas are sweetest and great for baking.
Ask your child: Do you like your bananas green, yellow or spotty?
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