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World's Healthiest Foods (George Mateljan Foundation) > Bananas Retrieved on April 21, 2009; Highlight HEALTH > Health Benefits of Bananas by Walter Jessen on Friday, January 26, 2007. Date: 22 April 2009: Source: All used images are in public domain. Author: Mikael Häggström
The banana plant is the largest herbaceous flowering plant. [2] All the above-ground parts of a banana plant grow from a structure called a corm. [3] Plants are normally tall and fairly sturdy with a treelike appearance, but what appears to be a trunk is actually a pseudostem composed of multiple leaf-stalks ().
Most banana cultivars which exhibit purely or mostly Musa acuminata genomes are dessert bananas, while hybrids of M. acuminata and M. balbisiana are mostly cooking bananas or plantains. [23] Musa acuminata is one of the earliest plants to be domesticated by humans for agriculture, 7,000 years ago in New Guinea and Wallacea. [24]
How to Air Fry Bananas. Start by preheating your air fryer to 400°. Slice a banana in half lengthwise, starting from the base and ending at the stem.
With only five trees reportedly remaining, a Madagascan banana species has been put on an extinction watchlist — and it could affect your supermarket stash.
Banana plants are among the largest extant herbaceous plants, some reaching up to 9 m (30 ft) in height or 18 m (59 ft) in the case of Musa ingens.The large herb is composed of a modified underground stem (), a false trunk or pseudostem formed by the basal parts of tightly rolled leaves, a network of roots, and a large flower spike.