There are some solutions for problems we weren’t even aware of. For example: many of us who buy bananas in bunches don’t eat them in time and, suddenly, we’re stuck with a lot of food waste. Perhaps some of us just figured that’s the way it is. Well, a grocery chain in South Korea thought otherwise.

E-Mart, a grocery chain that was founded in the early 1990s in South Korea, came up with a genius idea: selling bananas in packs of seven, arranged from the most green to the most yellow/ripe. The idea is that if one eats the bananas daily in the correct order, the unripe ones will be “ready” once their turn comes up.

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The Things You Don’t Know (@thingsyoudontknow1) Instagram page discuss the convenience of being able to choose the perfect banana. They explain, “In 2018, the South Korean grocery chain E-Mart introduced ‘Haru Hana Banana’ — which translates to ‘One-a-Day Banana.’........

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