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  Banana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Banana is the common name used for herbaceous plants in the genus Musa, which because of their size and structure, are often mistaken for trees.
Bananas are cultivated for their fruit (techincally berries, since the plant is a herb) which bear the same name, and to a lesser extent as ornamental plants.
Banana chips are a snack produced from dehydrated or fried banana or, preferably, plantain slices, which have a dark brown colour and an intense banana taste.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banana   (3914 words)

  
 banana - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about banana
Bananas are parthenocarps, the edible banana is the fruit of a sterile hybrid.
So great is the demand for bananas in Western countries – and so great a revenue-earner has the banana become – that during the late 1990s a trade war almost broke out between the USA and various European states, each calling upon the others to abandon protectionist policies favouring selected suppliers.
Bananas grown for export, such as these ones in the Seychelles, are cut when still green and ripened during the voyage.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /banana   (706 words)

  
 Banana - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
A banana is a tree-like plant (though strictly a herb) of the genus Musa in the family Musaceae, closely related to plantains.
Bananas are also humorously used as a phallic symbol (a metaphor for the human penis) due to similarities in size and shape.
The darkening of ripening bananas, proceeding from yellow, to brown, to fl, is mainly due to large amounts of serotonin (an important human neurotransmitter), which is produced from tryptophan in banana peels.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/b/a/n/Banana.html   (2561 words)

  
 Banana Restaurants
The word "banana" is a general term embracing a number of species or hybrids in the genus Musa of the...
Banana Link is a small and dynamic not-for-profit co-operative, founded in 1996 that campaigns for a fair and sustainable banana trade.
Banana bread is a quick bread which typically uses baking soda as the leavening agent instead of yeast.
www.eatingoutrestaurants.com /food/Banana.html   (3397 words)

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