Now this story I had to share … You read the title right. Apparently a Japanese fruit company is playing classical Mozart to its ripening bananas! Here’s the full story from the Herald Sun.
As odd as it may sound, the article says that companies in Japan have been experimenting with playing music to not only fruit, but noodles, soy sauce, miso and sake for over 20 years now! Sake being the pickiest where companies have experimented with loads of different musical styles from jazz to other classical artists like Bach, but Mozart is the sweetest tasting so far.
I don’t find this far fetched at all actually as I have read in the past of experiments done well over 20 years ago on the positive affects of music to plants in general. Funny, I’ve also read studies done on the positive affect of music on productivity of a work force which held similar results ….
First with plants, one of the experiments conducted was with the use of 3 sets of plants placed in 3 separate chambers. They compared a silent chamber to one with the same tone being projected into the room in a few hour slots, and another chamber with the same tone going on non stop. The ones with sporadic tones of a few hours each time were the healthiest which is the same result productivity wise at a work force. Studies showed music in the background from time to time (not turned on all the time) increased in overall productivity throughout the day. So now you know
Back to plants for a second, experiments kept going to demonstrate what kind of music plants seemed to grow the healthiest with and it always turned out to be the soothing type of genres while rock made the plants lean away from the sound source and made them overall less healthy in comparison.
I find the whole thing very interesting but have to admit, if I haven’t heard of any of these types of experiments with music and plants before, pitching the initial thought of the idea as a Japanese company playing Mozart to their ripening bananas may have been a little more shocking, but I really think it can make the plants healthier. Ahh music. Positive all around. I wonder if pounding death metal would have the same effect towards other living things like keeping spiders away?




