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Del Monte is to start selling its bananas individually wrapped in what have been dubbed 'banana condoms'.

The translucent sheath comes with in-built 'CRT', or in other words, 'Controlled Ripening Technology'.

The inclusion of this technology in their ‘coextruded polypropene wrappers’ will, Del Monte says, lengthen the shelf life of a banana by up to six days.