M&S adds bananas to fruit salads with new process to slow browning
The discovery, which comes after years of testing, has prompted it to add bananas to its classic fruit salads for the first time. The old housewives' method to avoid browning is to drizzle the slices with lemon juice, which slows the aging process as it is acidic.
M&S has enhanced this technique by spraying banana slices with a mix of citric acid and amino acid as soon as it is peeled. The coating preserves the banana for longer without affecting the taste or the nutritional content of the banana.
M&S found Cavendish bananas are the slowest ageing and chops them when they're slightly underripe, giving them time to develop flavour once they are sprayed and packaged.
With their new process, M&S's salads from its Spirit of Summer range will contain bananas.
source: telegraph.co.uk
