• Question: Is it true that bannana skins are very slippery? If so what makes them that way?

    Asked by spacenut to Faye, Martin, Mus, Pete on 27 Apr 2012.
    • Photo: Pete Etchells

      Pete Etchells answered on 27 Apr 2012:

      Hi spacenut! Banana skins aren’t as slippery as cartoons make them out to be – basically, it depends on the moisture content of the inner surface of the skin. If it’s very wet, then it will be slippery (much like wet floors are slippy), but if it’s dry, then it won’t be!

    • Photo: Faye Didymus

      Faye Didymus answered on 29 Apr 2012:

      Hi spacenut. As Pete says, cartoons make banana’s out to be a lot more slippery than they actually are! But if they’re wet then they can be really slippery…but no more so than anything else on the floor that gets wet!

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