The conventional bananas

It is now 5 days since purchasing these bananas from the Sprouts supermarket.

You may recall from the original weigh in that the bunch of conventional bananas weighed 32¼ ounces.

As you can see, they have started to speckle brown.  I don't believe the organic bananas had started to speckle before I peeled them.  However, they had begun to turn dark.  Today, the conventional bananas weigh in at 30¼ ounces.  Allowing them to ripen has resulted in the loss of 2 ounces.  That is 2 ounces I paid for but will never be able to use.  The organic bananas lost the same amount of weight during peeling.  However, the organic bunch was slightly larger, thus there is a higher percentage of loss in the bunch of conventional bananas.  Now, what about after peeling?

Naked, the bananas weigh in at 19¾ ounces.  That is a loss of 10½.  Again referring back to the original post, I paid 59¢ a pound for this bunch of bananas, or a total of $1.19.  Dividing that $1.19 by the remaining ounces means I actually paid 96.4¢ per pound for usable banana, and the percentage of waste is 38.8%.  So, how does this compare to organic banana?  Click here for the exciting conclusion!

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