{"id":2180,"date":"2025-03-03T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/scientists-create-banana-that-stays-fresh-for-24-hours-after-opening\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:03:50","slug":"scientists-create-banana-that-stays-fresh-for-24-hours-after-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/03\/scientists-create-banana-that-stays-fresh-for-24-hours-after-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create banana that stays fresh for 24 hours after opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-03 15:03:49<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Scientists have created a banana that remains fresh for 24 hours after it is opened.<BR><br \/>\nExperts at the British biotech company Tropic have altered the yellow fruit&#8217;s genetics so it can remain firm and fresh for about a day after it is opened.<BR><br \/>\nThe scientists have worked out how to target the genes responsible for the enzyme called polyphenol oxidase &#8211; which causes the fruit to brown &#8211; and disable them.<BR><br \/>\nThe technique is different from genetic modification as it makes exact changes to an organism&#8217;s existing genes without the introduction of foreign material.<BR><br \/>\nTropic&#8217;s chief executive Gilad Gershon said: &#8220;No more slimy, brown bananas!<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Our variety stays fresh for at least 12 hours after peeling and slicing, and after 24 hours displays 30 per cent less browning.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The bananas have the same taste, smell, sweetness and texture, the same everything we know and love, except the flesh doesn&#8217;t go as brown as quickly. That means you can add them to fruit salads and cut-fruit products, opening up a huge new market for bananas.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-03-03 15:03:49 Scientists have created a banana that remains fresh for 24 hours after it is opened. Experts at the British biotech company Tropic have altered the yellow fruit&#8217;s genetics&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}