Claim: A banana has been chemically ripened if it is brown spotted with a green stalk and naturally ripened if the stalk is black.
Fact-check: You can't tell how a banana was ripened by looking at it - Full Fact
Verdict: false. there is no consistent way to visually tell "naturally" and "chemically" ripened bananas apart. both can develop these characteristics.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2021-06-22T00:00:00