Difference between banana and plantain

Plantain is the name of a large group of bananas that has multiple varieties. Their diversity includes many types that are grown for a number of different purposes. Cavendish bananas can be eaten raw because they are ripe and easy to digest. Cooking types such as plantains are usually starchy (floury) even though they are ripe and must be cooked, baked or fried to make them digestible. Some varieties may have both uses.

Propagation

Most banana plants grown on the plantation have not been fertilized for 10,000 years. Almost every banana we eat is propagated by hand – an offshoot of an existing plant whose genetic pool has not been restored for centuries. As a result, bananas are extremely susceptible to various types of diseases.

Iceland

Most bananas come from hot countries. However, paradoxically, Iceland is the largest European producer of bananas. Bananas are grown in spacious greenhouses heated by geothermal waters, just two degrees south of the Arctic Circle.

Home storage

Bananas do not belong in the refrigerator. They suffer a heat shock there (low temperature practically cripples the activity of maturing enzymes) and they never mature properly again, they just turn brown and soften.

Profit

Bananas are the most profitable export crop in the world. The industry costs $ 12 billion a year, employs 400 million people to live and live, many of whom live below the poverty line.

Shape

It should be noted that not all types of bananas have fruit that we can buy on our shelves in stores. There are shorter fruits, some of them are oval or almost round, some are longer and thinner. When ripened, the bark sometimes does not turn yellow, but red. Such bananas will not be sold to us.

Dried bananas

At the same weight, dried bananas contain 5 times more calories than fresh bananas.

Banana peel

Banana peel is used in many cultures to soothe irritated skin after mosquito bites and remove warts.

Bier

In East Africa, bananas are fermented and brewed.