Are Aldi bananas inferior quality?
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February 8th, 2016
I buy bananas at Aldi a lot because the bananas there are cheap. It’s a trade-off because the bananas are also pre-bagged, which limits your selection as to size and quantity.
I often find that the bananas go from green to gray or green to brown with little yellow, ‘ripe’, stage in between.
My regular grocery recently had bananas on sale and I bought some there. The grocery bananas seemed to ripen on the counter and stay yellow for several days.
So, am I just bad at picking bananas at Aldi, or should I be aware that they are offering inferior bananas, and buy accordingly?
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I think that the higher-end grocery stores get the best picks of the available produce, and Aldi takes the “seconds”. For something that doesn’t need to be pretty and doesn’t spoil quickly – potatoes, onions, etc – it’s a good deal. For anything that tends to spoil – bananas, mushrooms, forget about avocados – I find spending a bit more at Publix is actually a better deal because I’m not throwing away a third of the purchase.
I remember reading somewhere that the bananas we commonly find regardless of the outlet, each and every one of them is a clone. They’re all genetically identical, which is why any diseae lethal to one of them can mean the end of it all. Extinction!
^^^^ Yes, and the ones which were best are now gone. What’s left will soon follow. That is why I am looking into growing kiwi.
I don’t have a problem with mushrooms and avocados. I buy the heck out of the berries and fruits. The bananas are prepackaged, however. Hard to buy less than 6, and they seem to go from too green to peel to gray in a couple days. @Seek
Genetically identical, yes, @stanleybmanly, but that doesn’t account for growing conditions and transportation. I think Aldi just gets inferior bananas.
It’s a disease, @Here2_4, and it will eventually wipe out the current, commercially grown strain of bananas. But not in our lifetimes, last I heard. And I checked my local grocery the other day, and they had at least 3 kinds of bananas. Problem is, I had no way of knowing if the short red ones were ready to eat. They seemed soft.
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