Tag: Banana

Don’t toss those green bananas! You may not believe me, but the truth is they WILL eventually get ripe. If they arrive to your site very green, it likely means they did not get enough of the ethylene gas that speeds the ripening process, but they will ripen naturally. It can take up to 6 […]

Bananas produce a natural plant hormone called ethylene that ripens the fruit. It works by converting starch into sugar, which gives the bananas that soft texture and sweet taste. They start off bright green in color and continue to ripen over time—gradually becoming yellow, then yellow with spots, and finally brown. Can bananas be too […]

Raw bananas belong to the genus Musa, which includes both bananas and plantains. Also known as Green bananas, Raw bananas is a general name used to refer to immature, unripe fruit of several varieties, including apple bananas and cavendish bananas. What is another name for green banana? Plantains (Musa paradisiaca) are a type of cooking […]

Some fruit (like bananas) give off ethylene gas as they ripen, and ethylene gas helps to convert starch into sugar, so this can also help to ripen the fruit around them. In fact, it’s often said that if you want another fruit to ripen, putting a very ripe banana close to them is sure to […]

A vendor displays bananas at his stall in Somalia. Eating bananas with a meal is such an ingrained part of Somali culture that it even provided material for a sad spoof of a Donald Trump tweet. Which country eats banana with everything? As with many other cultures, Somali food is eaten with your right hand. […]

Culinary use Cooking with banana peel is common place in Southeast Asian, Indian and Venezuelan cuisine where the peel of bananas and plantains is used in recipes. In April 2019, a vegan pulled pork recipe using banana peel by food blogger Melissa Copeland aka The Stingy Vegan went viral. Do other countries eat banana peels? […]

They’re full important nutrients, but eating too many could end up doing more harm than good. Too much of any single food may contribute to weight gain and nutrient deficiencies. One to two bananas per day is considered a moderate intake for most healthy people. How many bananas are eaten each year? 100 billion bananasAccording […]

As a result, the Spanish, French, British and Portuguese often pay at least twice as much for their bananas as Germans, who, unburdened by a colonial past, buy cheaply and freely from the Latins. Did Europeans eat bananas? Portuguese sailors brought bananas to Europe from West Africa in the early fifteenth century. Its Guinean name […]

The second reason bananas turn black is because of polyphenol oxidase, an enzyme that causes the fruit to ripen when it reacts with oxygen. This surrounds the entire banana (or bunch of bananas) and causes them to turn dark brown or black. What makes a banana turn black? Why does a banana peel turn black […]

Even though fruit consumption is on the decline in Japan, a banana-eating boom pushed banana consumption to a historic high in 2009. Perhaps the reason why bananas are so beloved in Japan is that they require little preparation while at the same time being healthy and packed with nutrients. Do they have bananas in Japan? […]

This is why bananas can become overly ripe within a matter of days. So, keeping your bananas cool will help them stay perfectly ripe for longer without turning black (via Leaf). The second reason bananas turn black is because of polyphenol oxidase, an enzyme that causes the fruit to ripen when it reacts with oxygen. […]

“They can be picked a little too early, in a state that does not allow them to ripen up.” In the store, a very green color could signify that, he said, so “look for organic bananas that are yellowing, meaning they were at the right stage when they were picked.” Why are my bananas still […]

The life cycle of a banana is a colorful one—it starts with a deep green, changes to a delicious yellow, and ends (if it’s not eaten beforehand) at an unappetizing brown. What is the true color of a banana? yellowWhat color is a banana? Duh, it’s yellow. Is a banana white or yellow? He replied: […]

yellow. Bananas are yellow But the volunteers had a hard time doing this. With a picture of a banana, for example, they would adjust the colour to be slightly too blue when trying to achieve grey, as if compensating for a perception of yellow that wasn’t really there (blue is opposite yellow on the colour […]

This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood, and generally make you feel happier. Are bananas good for depression? Bananas. Bananas are a tasty and convenient snack, and bananas help depression. That’s because the fruit contains serotonin, an essential […]

Banana plants are often mistaken for trees or palms – they are actually herbs. The banana is a perennial plant that replaces itself. Bananas do not grow from a seed but from a bulb or rhizome, and it takes 9 to 12 months from sowing a banana bulb to harvesting the fruit. What are bananas […]

The most well known examples of naturally-occurring radionuclides in foods are bananas and Brazil nuts. Bananas have naturally high-levels of potassium and a small fraction of all potassium is radioactive. Each banana can emit . 01 millirem (0.1 microsieverts) of radiation. Which fruit is most radioactive? Brazil nuts are the most radioactive everyday food. However, […]

To be clear, the potassium in bananas emit antimatter particles (positrons), but bananas don’t “contain” antimatter for more than (WAG) a nanosecond or so. Do bananas make dark matter? For example, bananas produce antimatter, releasing one positron—the antimatter equivalent of an electron—about every 75 minutes. This occurs because bananas contain a small amount of potassium-40, […]

Cavendish bananas are all genetically identical. Each banana you buy in the store is the clone of the one next to it. Every banana plant being grown for export is really part of the same plant, a collective organism larger than any other on earth, far bigger than the clonal groves of aspens. Are bananas […]

Edible bananas are the result of a genetic accident in nature that created the seedless fruit we enjoy today. Virtually all the bananas sold across the Western world belong to the so-called Cavendish subgroup of the species and are genetically nearly identical. What bananas are not genetically modified? Are bananas GMOs? The short answer is […]