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Scientists have that Mozart has a positive effect on many things, but the great himself might be surprised that his music helps bananas . A Japanese fruit company, Toyoka Chuo Seika, its bananas taste better after being to Mozart’s music for a week. The company has special “ripening chambers” that play wall-to-wall Mozart to its Philippine bananas -stop for a week. Company officials say "String Quartet No. 17" and "Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major" are good at sweetening the fruit. The company is very its methods work. It has started selling its fruit as "Mozart Bananas" in supermarkets. A spokesperson believes the bananas will become a throughout the rest of Japan once word gets out.

Toyoka Chuo Seika is not the first Japanese company to with classical music to produce better food. The “Japan Times” newspaper reports this is the latest in a spanning ten years. It writes: “Over the past few decades, a wide variety of foods and have been exposed to classical vibrations — soy in Kyoto, udon noodles in Tokyo, miso in Yamagata, maitake mushrooms in Ishikawa and "Beethoven Bread" in Nagoya, to a few.” The paper reports on a 1973 study into music and plants by Dorothy Retallack. It says: “After playing kinds of music to plants for three hours daily, she found they "preferred" classical, which made them flourish. Rock and country, on the other , had either a debilitating effect or none at all.”