Gene-edited bananas that don’t go brown could hit UK supermarkets

Scientific breakthrough could reduce food waste and make it easier to add the fruit to prepackaged foodIt is the bane of every fruit bowl: sliced banana that turns brown before it has reached the table. But such woes could soon be a thing of the past, with gene-edited bananas that keep their freshly peeled colour now one step closer to reaching British shoppers.According to Tropic, the Norwich-based agricultural-biotechnology company that developed the fruit, the bananas have the same taste and