This 4-star rating is based entirely on my success in storing bananas at room temperature, and not on results with other refiger. or non-refiger. foods. The G. Bags work great to slow down the ripening of bananas . I estimate that they make a banana taste OK for at least 3 more days than usual, maybe even for 6 or 7 more days, depending on how firm and sweet, etc., you want them to be.
Apples kept in the fridge in Green Bags seem to stay good longer than in plain, clear bags. How MUCH longer, I can't judge.
The main disadvantages for us:
-The sharp ends of the banana stems occasionally tear a hole in a bag. But I can quickly patch the hole with a piece of "package sealing tape", or "Scotch" tape.
-The green color of the bag makes it a bit harder (compared to an uncolored, clear bag) to see how green or yellow/ripe the bananas are, without opening the bag to look inside. As a result, my super-busy wife seems to eat fewer bananas than before. So I have taken to trying to remember to always leave 1 or 2 bananas outside a bag, so she will quickly see & grab one.
-Do the bags help greatly with other veg.'s & fruits? (WARNING: LONG, run-on sentence follows!) For stuff we refrigerate, I'm not certain, and in any case I can't test them for a decent period of a month or 2, because my wife, who does the shopping, hasn't transferred the stuff from the clear bags from the store, into D.M.'s Green Bags, and because I haven't made the effort to do it promptly myself, and even if I did, I'm not the one who "cooks" w/ the celery, clementine oranges, lettuce, etc., for the week or 2 or 3 in which the food either stays good or goes stale.
ENJOY!
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