Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Too Many Bananas


   Our family goes through a lot of bananas, but with the extreme heat we've been having it's been tough to eat them before they get too ripe. After making banana bread, banana cookies, and everything else we can think of, we had to find a different way to eat them.
   We ended up trying the food dehydrator to make banana chips. We've made banana chips in the past, but didn't think anything of them. After making the first batch recently, we realized what we've been doing wrong. When we made them before, we used bananas that were ripe but with no spots on them. With the new batches we tried using bananas that were heavily spotted and the result was much better. The first batch never made it into a container, they were eaten all up off the dehydrator. After doing some research, I found that bananas that are heavily spotted have as much as three times the amount of fructose in them compared to yellow bananas. Which is why they tasted so much better.

1 comment:

  1. What a great idea! Do you know how long they will store dehydrated???

    Sonja Twombly of
    http://lallybrochfarms.blogspot.com/

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