Bananas

Bananas on a white counter still with a little green on them.

Bananas are one of the oldest cultivated fruits. They are grown throughout the tropics, and are the most sold fruit in food retail stores. This means that food retailers continually have a fairly sizeable supply of bananas on display and in storage at all times. This course provides information on how to keep all this fruit at its best by storing, handling, ripening and displaying them correctly.

Since bananas are so popular, consumers may approach you with a variety of questions. This course also provides information that will help you answer some of these questions.

This course has the following objectives:

•Identify different types of bananas.
•Identify how to receive and store bananas.
•Identify how to ripen bananas.
•Identify how to handle and display bananas.
•Identify how to select and store bananas at home.

Course Duration: 45m