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Bananas are native to Southeast Asia. However by 500 BC they were being grown in India. Alexander the great ate them and his men took them back to the Western World. By 200 AD bananas were grown in China. Bananas were probably taken to Madagascar by the Arabs and spread from there to mainland Africa. In the 16th century the Portuguese took bananas to the New World. The first recorded sale of bananas in England was in 1633 however they were a rare and expensive fruit until the end of the 19th century. Bananas were first sold in the USA in the 1870s.

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