For the past couple months, I've been trying to maximize fruit and vegetable consumption within the Nulan household. Well so, I buy a bunch of bananas every few days as part of this regimen. Anyway, I accidentally picked up a bunch of organic bananas at my local HyVee store yesterday. They were conspicuously large and unlike the regular bananas about ready ripeness-wise for eating. {the usual suspects were all bright green and looked at least a couple days from table ready}
I didn't find out they were organic until I looked at them just a minute ago, and they had a little *organic* sticker on them. So I peel and bite one of these barnaynays and KAPOW!!!!, discover that I haven't eaten a real banana in years. It was so sweet, firm in texture, and like I said above, conspicuously large - that I was shocked by the difference in flavor intensity between it and the high-yield agro product I've grown accustomed to.
From now on, I'll be doing vastly more careful shopping and testing the difference between organic and mass agro produce. If this banana was not merely a fluke, but instead the rule concerning the differences, then the often mulled engagement with gardening, farmer's market co-oping and emphasis on organic produce just went to the top of my priority list.
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