I enjoyed this article greatly. I understand why banana bread is made from old bananas, but I don't like to eat older bananas which seem too sweet to me. I didn't realize how much this affected my liking/dislike for banana bread until the day that I made banana bread from bananas at the stage that I like to eat them (soft, but with a bit of the "green" taste still in them as they have just ripened). I make a banana/blueberry bread using bananas at the stage of ripeness that I enjoy and have found that now I can eat banana bread made with old bananas anymore (or at least, I can, but I won't make it). It really tastes very different. So if you like less ripe bananas and you like banana bread, you might want to try making it with bananas at the stage of ripeness that you like the best.

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