Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. sliced bananas frying in a pan - (c) By Cristóbal Alvarado Minic/Getty Images Bananas have a finite shelf life, often becoming ...

If your local supermarket is anything like mine, there’s a huge display of bananas. And right next to it, there’s a much smaller shelf devoted to plantains. It’s very easy to be in the fruit mind-set, ...