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  2. Banana - Wikipedia

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    A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry [1] – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with ...

  3. Berry (botany) - Wikipedia

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    In botany, a berry is a fleshy fruit without a stone (pit) produced from a single flower containing one ovary. Berries so defined include grapes, currants, and tomatoes, as well as cucumbers, eggplants (aubergines), persimmons and bananas, but exclude certain fruits that meet the culinary definition of berries, such as strawberries and ...

  4. Nut (fruit) - Wikipedia

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    A nut is a fruit consisting of a hard or tough nutshell protecting a kernel which is usually edible. In general usage and in a culinary sense, many dry seeds are called nuts. In a botanical context, "nut" implies that the shell does not open to release the seed (indehiscent). [1]

  5. Cavendish banana - Wikipedia

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    Cavendish bananas accounted for 47% of global banana production between 1998 and 2000, and the vast majority of bananas entering international trade. [1] The fruits of the Cavendish bananas are eaten raw, used in baking, fruit salads, and to complement foods. The outer skin is partially green when bananas are sold in food markets, and turns ...

  6. Why You Should Be Eating a Banana Every Single Day - AOL

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    Keep reading for more about why you should chow down this tropical tree-fruit: Nutrition Stats. 105 calories. 27g carbohydrates. 1g protein <1g total fat. ... Bananas and nuts or nut butter.

  7. Musa (genus) - Wikipedia

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    Musa is one of three genera in the family Musaceae. The genus includes 83 species of flowering plants producing edible bananas and plantains. Though they grow as high as trees, banana and plantain plants are not woody and their apparent "stem" is made up of the bases of the huge leaf stalks. Thus, they are technically gigantic herbaceous plants.

  8. Why Bananas May be on the Brink of Extinction - AOL

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    The variety called Cavendish bananas, which is reportedly the variation that makes up 47% of the bananas humans eat, is under threat from a disease called Panama Disease (Fusarium wilt) tropical ...

  9. Brazil nut - Wikipedia

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    The Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is a South American tree in the family Lecythidaceae, and it is also the name of the tree's commercially harvested edible seeds. [2] It is one of the largest and longest-lived trees in the Amazon rainforest. The fruit and its nutshell – containing the edible Brazil nut – are relatively large and weigh ...