Bananas Delivery or Pickup

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.

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.  

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.