🔶 Green: It’s the early stage that shows the fruit is still unripe. It’s firm to the touch and doesn’t have that signature banana fragrance. The peel is so tightly bound that you will have to use a knife to get to the fruit inside. The flesh itself is dense, entirely starchy, and not very sweet.

🔶 Greenish-yellow: Slightly unripe bananas are firm with a bit more give when pressed than completely unripe bananas. They possess a bright resin-like smell. The taste is half starchy, half sweet, and it has a bit of an astringent aftertaste.

🔶 Yellow: Many people consider this stage of ripeness ideal for bananas. They are easy to bite, you can feel a creamy taste in your mouth when you bite them, and they’re mostly sweet. They have a more vivid banana fragrance.

🔶 With brown freckles: The peel is thinner and can be removed from the flesh easier. The fruit is very soft, sweet, and fragrant inside.

🔶 Brown-black: At this stage, the overripe bananas lose their structural integrity and become mushy in texture. Their flesh is beginning to fray and gradually becomes translucent, crawling on the verge of liquifying into a syrupy, saccharine mess.

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