{"id":114670,"date":"2020-11-27T19:28:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T08:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=114670"},"modified":"2020-11-30T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T10:58:12","slug":"debunking-fake-viral-banana-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/debunking-fake-viral-banana-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunking Fake Viral Banana Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cHu10C1DAds\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode we are going bananas!  I read and researched so much about bananas and watched so many bananas hacks (that were all very similar to each other) that when I closed my eyes all I could see was bananas.  I have collated just the most interesting of facts and conducted lots of experiments for you.  Apart from the gardening ones, no bananas were wasted in the making of this video.<\/p>\n<p>These questions will be answered in this weeks episode: Do bananas make plants grow better? Does banana peel protect you from UV? How should you store bananas?  How do you keep bananas fresh?  Can you eat banana peel? What is Panama banana disease? And asks the question should we genetically modify our food?<\/p>\n<p>Want to keep reading more about bananas:<br \/>\nKeeping bananas green before they reach the store: https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/urban-expeditions\/food\/food-journeys-graphic\/<\/p>\n<p>Down the rabbit hole, how a myth starts:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/lifehacks\/comments\/80u5og\/bananas_ripen_slower_when_the_stems_are_wrapped\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit post quoting life hacker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lifehacker.com\/keep-bananas-fresh-longer-by-separating-them-and-wrappi-5967424\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Life hacker quotes wilgubeast<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Mantenga-Pl\u00e1tanos-frescos-por-m\u00e1s-tiempo-rodajas-t\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wilgubeast makes a broad faulty generalization from sauter <\/a><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www1.biologie.uni-hamburg.de\/b-online\/e31\/31g (1.09 ounces).htm <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verdemode.com\/australian-wax-tip-eco-bananas\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wax tipped banana a marketing ploy<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biotecharticles.com\/Agriculture-Article\/Factors-Affecting-for-Fruit-Ripening-in-Banana-3428.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Factors effecting fruit ripening<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/4818929\/Antibacterial_Activity_and_UV_Protection_Property_of_Some_Egyptian_Cotton_Fabrics_Treated_with_Aqueous_Extract_from_Banana_Peel\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Banana Peels used to dye fabric <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/cavendish-banana-extinction-gene-editing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TR4 resistance<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publish.csiro.au\/bi\/pdf\/bi9710885\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Decreased ethylene production in banana treated with external ethylene <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/banana-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114943\" data-wp-pid=\"114943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/banana-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/banana-768x572.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/banana-550x410.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/banana-400x298.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/banana-1200x900-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n \n<h4 align=center>My Cookbook<\/h4>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/cook-crazy-sweet-creations-cookbook-ann-reardon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hardcover-book-mockup-of-a-woman-reading-3409-el1.png\" alt=\"ann reardon crazy sweet creations cookbook\" title=\"Crazy Sweet Creations Cookbook\" style=\"opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8;\" class=\"fade\" \/><\/a>\n<\/br>\nStores that sell my book listed by country:  \n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook<\/a>\n<\/br>\nAll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/debunking-fake-viral-banana-videos\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/banana-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/banana-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/banana-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/banana-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/banana-1200x1200-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-wp-pid=\"114943\" \/><\/a><p>In this episode we are going bananas! I read and researched so much about bananas and watched so many bananas hacks (that were all very similar to each other) that when I closed my eyes all I could see was bananas. I have collated just the most interesting of facts and conducted lots of experiments for you. Apart from the gardening ones, no bananas were wasted in the making of this video. These questions will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,3364],"tags":[3451,3460,3459,3458,3457,3452,3453,3456,3454,3455],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114670"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115086,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114670\/revisions\/115086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}