Fruit pulp and white sugar, bananas, which takes its name from the banana, "finger" in Bantu, has emerged in Southeast Asiaaround 500 BC. Long ignored by man, it is ultimatelydomesticated by the Chinese who gradually integrate their diet.Only at the mercy of maritime expeditions, finally found the banana in South America and the Caribbean, where humidity andtropical temperatures are ideal for its cultivation. Introduced in Europe in the eighteenth century by the Portuguese, this fruit is very fragile in nature, is marketed on a large scale until a century later, thanks to the modernization of transportation and storage.
Currently, the largest banana-producing countries are locatedaround the globe (India, Brazil, Philippines, Ecuador andIndonesia), and thus offer an uninterrupted production throughoutthe year.Giant grass of the family Musaceae, the banana tree, whose leaves are 3 to 8 meters, can only produce a single plan year.Each plan may combine more than 300 fruits distributed by hand,small clusters of a dozen bananas, and can reach a total weight of several hundred pounds.
Because of its fragility, the fruit must be exported under very special conditions of storage. Harvested green bananas will be stored on his arrival in large warehouses called ripening, where the fruit to mature to wait before finally being sold. It is between16.5 and 20 ° C than bananas blonde and take their sweet tastedelicious.
There are two main types of bananas: bananas, fruit vegetablesand bananas.
Bananas grown for export, mainly banana fruits. Very sweet, there are hundreds of varieties, among which we count theGrande naine banana, Gros Michel, or Poyo Cavendish. Thesebanana fruit can be short and purple, or more often long andyellow with brown spots like those found in France.
Banana vegetable or plantain, is larger and less sweet than itscousin, and is found mostly in Creole cuisine, South Americanand African.
Currently, the largest banana-producing countries are locatedaround the globe (India, Brazil, Philippines, Ecuador andIndonesia), and thus offer an uninterrupted production throughoutthe year.Giant grass of the family Musaceae, the banana tree, whose leaves are 3 to 8 meters, can only produce a single plan year.Each plan may combine more than 300 fruits distributed by hand,small clusters of a dozen bananas, and can reach a total weight of several hundred pounds.
Because of its fragility, the fruit must be exported under very special conditions of storage. Harvested green bananas will be stored on his arrival in large warehouses called ripening, where the fruit to mature to wait before finally being sold. It is between16.5 and 20 ° C than bananas blonde and take their sweet tastedelicious.
There are two main types of bananas: bananas, fruit vegetablesand bananas.
Bananas grown for export, mainly banana fruits. Very sweet, there are hundreds of varieties, among which we count theGrande naine banana, Gros Michel, or Poyo Cavendish. Thesebanana fruit can be short and purple, or more often long andyellow with brown spots like those found in France.
Banana vegetable or plantain, is larger and less sweet than itscousin, and is found mostly in Creole cuisine, South Americanand African.
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