Freezing bananas

HenHen25

Anyone have luck freezing pureed bananas? Or should I not even bother.

MHeming

I sliced them up and pureed them with peaches when I froze them. I have never frozen them alone. They did turn brown, but i had no issues. Don't think I would, either. They are far too easy to just mush up when I want to give them to DS.

HenHen25

Thanks, that's what I figured. I'll just buy and mash them, I guess it's not like they get much more expensive in the winter either.

pitterpatter129

I mashed and froze.  Mine didn't really turn that brown, a little, but not a lot.  I like to freeze them because bananas don't get eaten at our house.  They just rot on the counter - freezing them ensured that they wouldn't go bad.

MJCF

I freeze bananas all the time but I dont mash them. I freeze them in chunks and give them to DS frozen in a mesh feeder. He LOVES them that way. When I freeze them in chunks they don't really get brown. Maybe slightly but not bad at all.

Wufroggy79

eddy321:

It's not bad.  They turn a little brown, but they're perfectly fine.  A hates bananas to begin with, but she doesn't hate them any more when they're frozen/thawed than she does when they're fresh.

FWIW, I found that it was actually a waste of time freezing bananas.  It sounded like a good idea at first, but it was more work to freeze them than it was just to mush one up whenever I want it.  We just buy a small bunch of bananas every few weeks, and we eat bananas for a few days until they're gone.

This here too, though I never even attempted to freeze the banana.