The period between harvest and consumption is four to five weeks, during which bananas travel 1,500 miles by land and about 2,000 to 6,000 miles by water to reach their markets, where their shelf life is no more than 5 days.
Everything we see around us, from the walls, the rooms they form, buildings, to furniture, dishes, books, clothes, and so on, can be considered the fruits of applied and exact sciences. Even human beings themselves have "survived" to this day thanks to medicine and other sciences.