ripe banana
Ready to eat
A ripe banana is one ready to eat—yellow skin, soft flesh, full sweetness.
The phrase often appears in comparisons: something curved like a ripe banana, someone slipping on a ripe banana peel.
In discussions of ripeness, it marks the ideal eating stage between underripe green and overripe brown-spotted.
- yellowHue between green and orange
- peelOuter fruit layer
- sweetTasting of sugar
- mushySoft or saccharine
- softYielding to touch
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