Canned bananas would really only be a practical option if fresh varieties were difficult to find during certain times of the ...

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According to Robert Schueller from Melissa’s Produce, the largest specialty produce distributor in the United States, “there are over 400 varieties of bananas, but only six are commercially ...

To that end, Yelloway is studying the DNA of 150 banana varieties, to make a kind of banana family tree, Fernando García-Bastidas, the head of the banana breeding program at KeyGene, told BI.

Gabriel Sachter-Smith is a banana aficionado who has identified some 500 varieties of banana on expeditions around the tropical world. “It’s like collecting Pokémon,” Mr. Sachter-Smith said ...

The bananas we eat, called Cavendish bananas, are threatened by a plant-killing disease called fusarium wilt. This disease has already wiped out other banana varieties, and it devastated banana ...

Its bananas are small and not as sweet as those of the tropical varieties. Then there is a super-hardy banana hybrid (Musa basjoo) that can grow almost anywhere in the United States.

Nutritionally, blue bananas are quite similar to other banana varieties. They are a good source of potassium, vitamin B6 and dietary fiber.