They addressed that, actually.

True to the spirit of journalistic inquiry, your correspondent can attest that seawater has not degraded the taste of the bananas, with the only threats to health posed by skin slippage and by eating too many of them.

The tarantulas have usually abandoned the bananas by the time we eat the bananas.

I assume the spiders would have died, and now you have delicious, brined cooking bananas!