What happens when you bruise a banana?

[Rughugger]

I eat my bananas a bit green peeled. It's when they're the best. :)

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[Ladios]

But then they are all dry and bitter tasting.

[Sarge]

and taste sour

[Ronin]

Bananas taste better when the sugar in it starts to break down.

But then again it turns into mush.

[Nick4t]

An answer related to Ladios's question.

As it hits the floor the energy of the impact is absorbed by the tissues that make up the banana.
When you drop some objects they will shatter, but fruit tissue is able to absorb some of the impact without shattering, but the harder it falls, the more damage will be done.
If the fruit is cold or very rich in water it will be more sensitive to impacts.
The tissue of the banana is made up of millions of tiny cells; each cell is contained by a cell wall. If you break these cell walls by dropping the banana or by biting into it, everything inside the cells will spill out.
This includes iron-rich chemicals called phenols, enzymes called polyphenol oxidase, and oxygen.
When these mix together they undergo an oxidation reaction. In this reaction the iron reacts with oxygen, the same thing happens if you leave your bike out in the rain for a long time, an oxidation reaction turns it rusty.
The bruise on the banana gets its brown colour from pigments called melanins which are produced by the reaction.

This column was supplied by Newcastle’s Centre for Life.

[Ladios]

Thank you very much for that information. My quest for knowledge has been momentarilly satisfired.

[*DeathGuard*]

An answer related to Ladios's question.

As it hits the floor the energy of the impact is absorbed by the tissues that make up the banana.
When you drop some objects they will shatter, but fruit tissue is able to absorb some of the impact without shattering, but the harder it falls, the more damage will be done.
If the fruit is cold or very rich in water it will be more sensitive to impacts.
The tissue of the banana is made up of millions of tiny cells; each cell is contained by a cell wall. If you break these cell walls by dropping the banana or by biting into it, everything inside the cells will spill out.
This includes iron-rich chemicals called phenols, enzymes called polyphenol oxidase, and oxygen.
When these mix together they undergo an oxidation reaction. In this reaction the iron reacts with oxygen, the same thing happens if you leave your bike out in the rain for a long time, an oxidation reaction turns it rusty.
The bruise on the banana gets its brown colour from pigments called melanins which are produced by the reaction.

This column was supplied by Newcastle’s Centre for Life.

I was gonna say something like that

[Skeez]

An answer related to Ladios's question.

As it hits the floor the energy of the impact is absorbed by the tissues that make up the banana.
When you drop some objects they will shatter, but fruit tissue is able to absorb some of the impact without shattering, but the harder it falls, the more damage will be done.
If the fruit is cold or very rich in water it will be more sensitive to impacts.
The tissue of the banana is made up of millions of tiny cells; each cell is contained by a cell wall. If you break these cell walls by dropping the banana or by biting into it, everything inside the cells will spill out.
This includes iron-rich chemicals called phenols, enzymes called polyphenol oxidase, and oxygen.
When these mix together they undergo an oxidation reaction. In this reaction the iron reacts with oxygen, the same thing happens if you leave your bike out in the rain for a long time, an oxidation reaction turns it rusty.
The bruise on the banana gets its brown colour from pigments called melanins which are produced by the reaction.

This column was supplied by Newcastle’s Centre for Life.

*brain sputters* i just thought it was bananananana being hurted......nyeh

[Ladios]

*brain sputters* i just thought it was bananananana being hurted......nyeh

*sigh*

[BlueGeorge]

An answer related to Ladios's question.

As it hits the floor the energy of the impact is absorbed by the tissues that make up the banana.
When you drop some objects they will shatter, but fruit tissue is able to absorb some of the impact without shattering, but the harder it falls, the more damage will be done.
If the fruit is cold or very rich in water it will be more sensitive to impacts.
The tissue of the banana is made up of millions of tiny cells; each cell is contained by a cell wall. If you break these cell walls by dropping the banana or by biting into it, everything inside the cells will spill out.
This includes iron-rich chemicals called phenols, enzymes called polyphenol oxidase, and oxygen.
When these mix together they undergo an oxidation reaction. In this reaction the iron reacts with oxygen, the same thing happens if you leave your bike out in the rain for a long time, an oxidation reaction turns it rusty.
The bruise on the banana gets its brown colour from pigments called melanins which are produced by the reaction.

This column was supplied by Newcastle’s Centre for Life.

My banana is rusting?!

[*DeathGuard*]

My banana is rusting?!

I would like to be a mycologist someday, so I thought that would be something
like a reaction to air