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East African Highland bananas are one of the most important staple food crops in the African Great Lakes region, particularly for Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Burundi, and Rwanda. Per capita annual consumption of bananas in Uganda is the highest in the world at 0.70 kg (1.5 lb) daily per person. [14]
Left to right: plantains, Red, Latundan, and Cavendish bananas The following is a list of banana cultivars and the groups into which they are classified. Almost all modern cultivated varieties ( cultivars ) of edible bananas and plantains are hybrids and polyploids of two wild, seeded banana species, Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana .
The cooking bananas of East Africa belong to a different group, the East African Highland bananas. [7] Further, small farmers in Colombia grow a much wider range of cultivars than large commercial plantations do, [ 29 ] and in Southeast Asia—the center of diversity for bananas, both wild and cultivated—the distinction between "bananas" and ...
During this time he collected banana samples in East Africa in 1948 and further samples in Asia and Malaysia in 1954/5. [ 5 ] [ 3 ] From 1959 to 1965 he was the head of the Potato Genetics Department of the John Innes Institute .
The cooking bananas (specifically East African Highland bananas) are peeled, wrapped in the plant's leaves and set in a cooking pot (a sufuria) on the stalks that have been removed from the leaves. The pot is then placed on a charcoal fire and the matoke is steamed for a few hours.
Guineos Verdes en Fricasé – Green bananas cooked in a spicy, tomato-based fricassee sauce with recaíto, capers, chilies, and olives. Macabeos – Green bananas boiled and mashed with annatto oil and a small amount of uncooked green banana. They are then filled with the meat of choice, made into small balls, and deep-fried.
True plantains are a group of cultivars of the genus Musa (bananas and plantains) placed in the African Plantain subgroup of the AAB chromosome group. [1] Although "AAB" and "true plantain" are often used interchangeably, plantains are the most popular varieties among the AABs. [1]
The variety was once the dominant export banana to Europe and North America, grown in Central America but, in the 1950s, Panama disease, a wilt caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, wiped out vast tracts of Gros Michel plantations in Central America, though it is still grown on non-infected land throughout the region.