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Hamakua Springs bananas are Food Safety Certified.
We were also the first banana farm in the world to be certified ECO-OK by the Rainforest Alliance.
We, and other local banana growers, refuse to use insecticide-impregnated bags because we cannot stand the thought of our workers having to carry those bags in close contact with their skin.
Yet our bananas can only be sold in Chinatown, because they are not blemish-free enough.
I write this because a friend of mine from O‘ahu asked me yesterday: “Where can I find local bananas?” He told me his family prefers local bananas – because they taste better, not because they look better.
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