Have you never seen a banana with spots? Genuinely asking, I’m shocked honestly. To answer your question, your banana is just ripening I think. The outer skin goes from green to yellow to brown, and the inside portion goes from white to pale yellow to yellow as it keeps on ripening. The taste will also keep on getting sweeter with time.
PotatoAnalytics
[Enzymatic browning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_browning). The same process that turns apples (and other fruits and vegetables) brown when cut or bruised. It eventually turns the entire peel black.
AP_Gaming_9
Those are commonly referred to as sugar spots and are an indication that the banana is ripe. It’s a sign that the starches are converting to sugars hence why ripe bananas tend to be sweeter
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Have you never seen a banana with spots? Genuinely asking, I’m shocked honestly. To answer your question, your banana is just ripening I think. The outer skin goes from green to yellow to brown, and the inside portion goes from white to pale yellow to yellow as it keeps on ripening. The taste will also keep on getting sweeter with time.
[Enzymatic browning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_browning). The same process that turns apples (and other fruits and vegetables) brown when cut or bruised. It eventually turns the entire peel black.
Those are commonly referred to as sugar spots and are an indication that the banana is ripe. It’s a sign that the starches are converting to sugars hence why ripe bananas tend to be sweeter