7-Eleven Bananas To Be Individually Wrapped In Plastic

Today, the nation's largest convenience store chain will test at 27 Dallas-area locations a new plastic wrap developed by supplier Fresh Del Monte Produce to keep single bananas yellow and firm for five days -- more than double the two-day shelf life for an unwrapped banana.

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[mick7191]

07:21 AM on 10/15/2009

Bananas come in their own wrapper. Yeesh.

[CrzyRussell]

01:11 PM on 10/14/2009

If I had the choice (n a 7/11) to buy a banana protected from contamination in a plastic bag or an unbagged one I would choose the bagged one. Food from a 7/11 is eaten on the go. There is no place to wash it and god knows who touched them prior to you.

Sanitation comes first in my book.

[middleofthemiddle]

04:04 PM on 10/14/2009

You eat the banana along with the skin?

[ResidualSelfImage]

12:37 PM on 10/14/2009

If the plastic was made from hemp oil we could throw it in the trash and incinerate it and make electricity out of it.

[janie@atthelake]

11:40 AM on 10/14/2009

This is so stupid.....

[KriTiKiT]

11:16 AM on 10/14/2009

not in austin tx.

[DogTown]

04:34 AM on 10/14/2009

Bananas already have a wrapper. It's called the peel!

[rocketman69]

03:16 AM on 10/14/2009

Why not wrap them in dicarded, biodegradable, used underwear?

[Mark Murray]

01:41 AM on 10/14/2009

Wrapping individual banana's in plastic is unnecessarily wasteful. I like the idea of making fresh fruit and other wholesome foods conveniently available. I know that banana's on my shelf at home last at least 5 days (sometimes longer) without being wrapped in plastic. Is 7-11 really interested in selling banana's or do they just like the imagery of fresh fruit on their counter?

[greendrake]

10:20 PM on 10/13/2009

... sign of the impending apocalypse #2956...

[jsarets]

08:42 PM on 10/13/2009

A transparent film of biodegradable thermoplastic called polylactic acid (made from fermented corn) could be used as a vapor barrier to extend the shelf life of the bananas.

[capitalismisntamoral]

07:19 PM on 10/13/2009

This is moronic.

If ever there was a food/fruit that was perfect for eating with dirty hands, it's a banana.
You can peel it and never touch the part you're going to eat, unless you're anal about the stringy parts.

[Please-Play-Fair]

11:38 PM on 10/13/2009

Ah ... but the plastic is to improve shelf life ... not make it cleaner for eating! They have ulterior motives.

[econ1]

06:43 PM on 10/13/2009

The plastic may be overkill....but food spoilage is a huge problem and hugely wasteful of water, land, transportation costs etc.

So this is not a simple question. Quite possible that wrapping every single fruit would save on landfill, carbon etc.. A great economic study for some college student.

[CintiBlue]

04:46 PM on 10/13/2009

Seems to me there have been more items in plastic to appear in the last year or so than ever before. With all the vitamin waters, sliced apples, now bananas the war will never be won.