Bananas do not ripen

Banana is one of the most popular fruit in the world. Banana may be the world's first cultivated fruit. Evidence of banana cultivation have been found in New Guinea in 8000 B.C. There are almost 1000 types of banana in the world. In United State and European market banana export reached about 18 million tons in 2015. In the United States, each person eats 11.4 lbs. of bananas per year. Banana is very good for human heart. It helps to control our blood pressure. Banana is very useful to protect kidney cancer. Bananas do not ripen naturally, but rather are shipped while they are still green because they are too delicate to ship when they are actually ripe. Distributors use extremely precise storage technology to trick the bananas into ripening right before they hit the shelves.