Bananas will last 10 days longer if stored with kitchen utensils rather than in a fruit bowl.

Bananas are my   favorite fruit for breakfast, whether I'm mashing them on toast or mixing them into my porridge. However, I used to avoid buying them because they turned brown and mushy very quickly, even if I'd just picked them up from the supermarket.

I hate wasting food, so I almost stopped buying fruit altogether until one day I accidentally left bananas on the kitchen table instead of putting them in the fruit bowl      .   The next morning, they looked fresher and yellower than anything else I'd bought recently. That's when I realized the fruit bowl is actually one of the worst places to store fruit.

After further research, I discovered that bananas are very sensitive to ethylene, an invisible gas produced by most fruits. While ethylene helps fruit ripen and develop its flavor, too much of it in one area causes surrounding produce to spoil.