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  2. Latundan banana - Wikipedia

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    Unripe latundan bananas. Latundan banana plants typically reach a height of 3-4 meter (10-13 feet). They require full or partial sun exposure. The flowers are yellow, purple, or ivory in color. The fruits are round-tipped with thin yellow skin that splits once fully ripe.

  3. Cavendish banana - Wikipedia

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    The outer skin is partially green when bananas are sold in food markets, and turns yellow when the fruit ripens. As it ripens, the starch is converted to sugars turning the fruit sweet. When it reaches its final stage (stage 7), brown/black "sugar spots" develop. When overripe, the skin turns black and the flesh becomes mushy.

  4. Ripening - Wikipedia

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    Climacteric fruits ripen after harvesting and so some fruits for market are picked green (e.g. bananas and tomatoes). Underripe fruits are also fibrous, not as juicy, and have tougher outer flesh than ripe fruits (see Mouth feel). Eating unripe fruit can lead to stomachache or stomach cramps, and ripeness affects the palatability of fruit.

  5. How Do You Grill A Ripe Plantain - AOL

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  6. Cooking banana - Wikipedia

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    They can be made with unripe patacon verde or ripe patacon amarillo plantains. [ 28 ] Chifles is the Spanish term used in Peru and Ecuador for fried green plantains sliced 1–2 mm ( 1 ⁄ 32 – 3 ⁄ 32 in) thick; it is also used to describe plantain chips which are sliced thinner.

  7. The surprising reason its actually healthier to eat unripe ...

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    A medium banana has 105 calories. The health benefits include lower blood pressure, gut health and are a source of fiber and B6.

  8. List of banana cultivars - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  9. Musa acuminata - Wikipedia

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    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 ]