Do you like bananas?
Sliced into a cereal bowl, blended into a smoothie or eaten as is for a snack, they are delicious.
In fact, the banana is one of the most popular fruits in the world.
In France, each household eats 12 kg of bananas per year! It is the second most consumed fruit in France, after the apple.
It must be said that bananas are super practical fruits to eat thanks to their skin. It's like a natural wrapper!
But do you know how all those banana peels end up?
Unfortunately, they end up with the rest of the trash, in the landfill where they produce methane as they rot.
The problem is that methane is a gas 21 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.
Food waste accounts for 20% of methane emissions , which is a major contributor to global warming.
Fortunately, there are tips for using banana peels and preventing them from turning into waste and greenhouse gases.
Here are 10 amazing uses of banana peels that everyone should know to reduce their waste . Watch:
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In France, each household consumes 12 kg/year of bananas. That's 500,000 tons a year!
Banana peel represents 12% of its total weight. That's 60,000 tons of peelings that end up in the landfill!
- Most bananas grow around the equator.
- Picked while still green, they travel long distances in refrigerated trucks.
- They are then exposed to ethylene in maturation chambers.
- Then they are transported to the stores.
- And finally, to our homes.
- 25% of them end up in landfill and emit methylene, a greenhouse gas
Put banana peels around the stems of the tomatoes. This will allow them to absorb nutrients throughout the season.
To discover: 5 Natural and Free Fertilizers For Super Healthy Plants.
Soak a banana peel in a large container of water. Mix 1 part of this banana infused water with 5 parts clear water in a watering can. Water your plants with it to fertilize them.
To discover: 4 Tips For Healthy Indoor Plants.
Banana peels decompose quickly and provide many nutrients to the soil to grow flowers and vegetables.
To discover: The 7 Best DIY Fertilizers For The Garden.
Rub inside of banana peel on insect bites, poison ivy rashes, psoriasis patches to relieve itching and aid healing. Check out the trick here.
Add dried and chopped banana peels to feed chickens, pigs, rabbits and livestock.
To discover: 6 Simple Tricks To Feed Your Chickens WITHOUT BRINGING YOURSELF.
The sweet and sour flavor of banana vinegar will season your salads, flavor water or tea. You can use banana vinegar in any recipe that calls for vinegar.
Add a ripe banana peel to the pan when roasting boneless, skinless meat. This prevents the meat from drying out during cooking.
Take advantage of all the nutrients, fibers and antioxidants of organic bananas by boiling the skin for 10 min. Put the skin in a blender alone or mixed with other fruits.
To discover: The Multivitamin Smoothie Recipe, Light and Economical!
Place overripe banana peels on a high rack. And watch the birds and butterflies flock to this sweet treat. Be careful, bees and wasps can also be attracted.
To discover: How to Easily Create an Automatic Bird Food Dispenser.
Rub the inside of a banana peel on the leather of shoes, jackets or furniture. Then wipe with a chamois leather. To make silver shine, mix a banana peel with water. And use the mixture to make the silver shine.
Overripe bananas are the perfect ingredient for making banana cake, muffins and more.
Freeze overripe bananas in a freezer bag, until you need them.
Here's a trick to keep your bananas fresh longer.
Remove the bananas from their bag to be sure they ripen evenly.
Bananas should be left at room temperature to ripen. Separate from each other and wrap the stem in cling film to slow down the ripening process. Check out the trick here.
You can also keep them longer by putting them in the fridge. The skin will darken but the banana will still be good to eat for several days.
Every year, nearly 10 million tons of food products are wasted in France.
Of these 10 million tons, more than 1.2 concern food that is still edible.
This represents approximately 20 kg per French person each year.
