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Bananas Delivery or Pickup
The Instacart guide to bananas
With the easy-to-use Instacart app, you can get bananas or your favorite banana product delivered directly to your door. You can also pick up your order curbside at a store nearby. When you place an order through Instacart, an Instacart shopper will assemble the fresh produce you choose and bring it to you on the same day! When you order fruits and vegetables through Instacart, including bananas, you can save valuable time and make your day easier.
About bananas
Bananas are some of the bestselling fruits in the United States. These elongated, curved berries are native to Southeast Asia and Australia. Banana plants look like trees, and the leaves can grow more than 8 feet long. People often make textiles and paper from the bark and leaves. Banana flour is made from dried, ground banana chips, and it's a popular gluten-free alternative to wheat flour.
Bananas grow in large bunches with multiple tiers or hands. One cluster or bunch can weigh more than 100lbs, and it has 5-20 tiers. People usually buy banana tiers in stores, and each tier can hold up to 20 fruits. Producers usually pick bananas when they're still green, and they ripen after they're transported to a store. Wild bananas have larger seeds and are shorter and thicker than domestic varieties.
Bananas are the biggest herbaceous flowering plants, and all the aboveground parts of a banana plant come from an underground stem called a corm. The first bananas were cultivated in Papua New Guinea thousands of years ago, and they're popular all over the world today. Portuguese sailors brought bananas to North America in the 16th century. Many people in countries with warm climates grow bananas as food crops for themselves or for local markets.
How to pick out bananas
Green bananas are best with savory dishes, and people sometimes call them plantains. As bananas ripen, they turn yellow and might have black spots. They taste sweeter and have a mushier texture than green bananas. People use them in desserts more often than they do in savory foods. If you put bananas in the refrigerator, they won't ripen as quickly, but the peel will turn black. You can keep fresh bananas for a few weeks, and ripe bananas will fluoresce underneath ultraviolet light. The breakdown of chlorophyll causes this phenomenon.
Types of bananas
Most of the bananas in the United States are Cavendish bananas. They don't produce seeds, so they're grown from cuttings. This means all Cavendish bananas are genetically identical. Saba or cardaba bananas are grown in the Philippines, and people cook them or eat them raw. They're smaller than Cavendish bananas, and the fruits have more angular shapes. People grow Fe'i bananas on the Pacific Islands. The skins are red or orange, and the flesh is yellow or orange. They have pink, magenta, or purple sap.
Bananas Near Me
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FAQs about bananas
For breakfast, you can make banana pancakes, eat a raw banana, or have toast with banana slices and Nutella or peanut butter. Bananas make excellent toppings for oatmeal, cereal, yogurt, and ice cream. You can add them to a fruit salad, as well. Banana pudding is a favorite in the Southeastern U.S., and you can add banana slices to s'mores. Bananas Foster is a popular dessert that has banana liqueur, rum, ice cream, and bananas.
Bananas make excellent ingredients for smoothies, and you can make banana bread or banana muffins. Chocolate-covered and deep-fried bananas are popular, as well. You can use bananas instead of coconut milk in many curries. For lunch, have a sandwich with peanut butter, banana, and mayonnaise. For dinner, mix sweet potatoes and bananas, and top them with pecans and brown sugar. You can also bake plantains with butter and serve them with fish or chicken.
Bananas have plenty of fiber, potassium, vitamin B6, vitamin C, magnesium, and manganese. They're high in vitamin A, so they can help prevent macular degeneration, a common eye disease. They can help people keep their digestion healthy, as well. They can also help you lose weight because they're high in nutrients and low in calories. The antioxidants in bananas can protect you from heart disease and cancer, and their potassium helps keep your kidneys healthy. The thick peel on bananas means they rarely contain pollutants or pesticides.
You can make your day a lot easier and have some additional time to spend relaxing with friends and family members when you place your next banana order through Instacart. Instacart shoppers will make the trip to a store for you, and you can order with your smartphone in minutes. You can choose from several banana varieties and get your delivery in as little as 2 hours! You can also order banana leaves.