I bought a couple of organic bananas a few days ago as I pursued my research into whether organic food actually tastes better than conventionally grown food.

Two days later the bananas lay on my chopping block looking exactly the way they had when I bought them. Usually bananas go brown pretty fast I find. When I sampled the organic banana I found it denser and more fibrous than the usual banana and without the usual banana's attractive slipperiness.

Moreover, the organic banana had about HALF the flavour of the regular banana which cancels it out for cooking.

My bananas weren't labelled so I couldn't go to the Dole website and check out where my bananas came from. Next time I buy an organic banana I shall find one labelled with a code then I can find the origin of my particular fruit and also find the farm where it was grown, even see pics of farmers responsible for this inferior fruit.

Then I'll email them asking for improvements.