Bananas and Plantains

Black mold grows on bananas because the mold spores are located on the outside of the banana. Mold spores are found in the air and settle on most surfaces. The banana provides a moist atmosphere for the spores to grow.

Avocados have many wonderful nutrients in them for your body. The vitamins it includes are A, B, C, E, and K. Folic acid is also among these. It also contains minerals such as copper, iron, magnesium, calcium and many more. As a bonus, it even supplies our body with our needed amino acids, and is an agent to help protect us against mad cow disease.

No. All snakes are carnivores. They only eat meat.

The carb content depends on the weight or size. For the carbohydrates in both banana and potato, by weight or size, please see the page links, further down this page, listed under Related Questions.

Bananas are frequently (and mistakenly) thought to grow on trees. In fact, they are herbaceous plants of the genus Musa. As such, the parent plant "makes" the banana. The banana is a fruit with a large number of complex chemical molecules in its makeup. A link is provided to the Wikipedia article on the banana.

Unfortunately, the cookies n cream flavor is one of the discontinued varieties.

They stopped selling this flavorr due to low sales.

Bananas, it depends on how ripe they are when you buy them. I always try to buy them with a little green still left in the peals, this gives them a longer counter life, from 3 to 5 days. If they are all yellow, they don't have long to go. When they begin to get brown spots on the peals, They are not really bad, they just aren't as firm and tasty. Never put them in the refrigerator unless you are going to eat them the next day.

If you put bananas that have not been peeled in the fridge the skin will turn black. The banana itself will still be fine. I know this because during humid weather i put them in the fridge so they don't go mushy.

The banana was first cultivated in Southeast Asia, possibly as early as 7,000 years ago. The fruit was already known in Europe in classical times; the ancient Romans called it ariera. It was introduced into the New World by Portuguese sailors in the 1500's.

Yes they do, they originate from Africa.

Broccoli by a large margin molds faster than carrots. In my personal experience, and I eat a lot of steamed veggies containing both of these plants (nearly every day), mold will begin growing on broccoli in about a week and carrots are often free of the fuzz until two or three weeks after purchasing. Of course, this depends largely on how old the produce is at the time of purchase, and whether it is organic or not. Many of the chemicals that are used on non-organic produce inhibit the growth of mold, so it may last longer in this case.

India holds the world record for the most exported bananas exporting 16.5 million metric tons of bananas per year

They technically do not "farm" bananas. Bananas grow on trees, and being that, they are not "farmed", they are more as grown. Most farmers do not farm bananas because they can't technically be "farmed".

Bananas ripen quickly on their own as they're one of the few fruits that release ethene. Keeping them together in a plastic bag should make them ripen. Keep them away from other fruit that you don't want to go off, and if you want avocados to ripen put them in a brown paper bag with bananas in an airing cupboard.

India, Brazil, China, Ecuador, and The Philippines are the top five exporters of bananas.

Today, wild bananas can be found in New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Domestic banana growing now extends to over 107 countries with the top producers being India, China, Philippines, Brazil, Ecuador and Indonesia. Each year there are about 73 million metric tons of bananas produced all around the world.

Bananas originated in Southeast Asia, probably Thailand. They were later brought to India where they then made their way into Africa. Bananas did not make to the Western Hemisphere until the 1500s when they were planted on a Carribean island by a Spanish priest.

Recent evidence suggests they were first domesticated in Papua New Guinea sometime around 5000-8000 BC. This was followed by a separate domestication in other parts of South East Asia. There is also evidence of domestication in Africa dating from about the 6th century.

Bananas are grown in a variety of tropical and subtropical areas.

Most countries in Africa....... I would assume all the major ones

First domesticated in Papua New Guinea and now grown in 107 countries in the world

by animals like bird because they ate and pass out by droppings.

Bananas are fruit, which are classified as inanimate objects. Thus, they are not real people.

Bananas do have seeds, however bananas from your regular grocery store will have very small soft seeds that are somewhat hard to identify. Wild bananas on the other hand have large hard seeds.

Use Fruit Fresh or another similar product. Also try Lemon Juice or Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C) powder.

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Bitertanol, Chlotpyrifos, Thiabendazole, Imazil...

Are the one's we found here on imported bananas

Pesticides been found on 100% of UK gov samplers

http://www.pesticides.gov.UK/prc.asp?id=698

The last two ones: Thiabendazole, Imazil are fungicides into the bananas take a bath before to be packing for export.

In average they put 26 to 30 kilos of pesticides by hectare and spray them by plane every week (Costa Rica) one week on two (in Ecuador). In Ecuador the workers cannot quit their work station during the aerian spray.

For more info on Bananas in the world, workers conditions, environmental impacts:

www.ibc2.org (international banana conference 2005)

My website will be available in English in few weeks: www.equicosta.com (Canadian importer of Fraitrade Organic bananas) Continu to ask questions more we know more we act!!

Here's the basics of bread freezing... * Bread in a lose plastic bag- one month or less * Bread in freezer quality plastic wrap and tin foil- up to 6 months * Bread in a vacuum sealed package- up to 6 months * Partially baked rolls or buns loosely packed- 2-3 months * Partially baked rolls or buns individually wrapped- 4-5 months * Quick bread batter 3-4 months * Yeast dough- 2-3 months

Bananas spread their seed through ingestion and defecation, so their function is to be eaten and their seeds fertilized thus propagating the species.

When they are yellow. Da!

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From:a 12 year old girl who you can call babbiol (it rhymes!)