In Cuba grow three types of bananas:
dessert-, red and bake bananas
We have visited in Cuba banana plantations and tasted several bananas
The banana taste much sweeter than in the Netherlands (probably because they ripen in the sun) but the red banana was my favorite
The dessert banana has a thick skin, is yellow and about 20 cm long
The flower is also edible and has somewhat bitter and slightly sweet taste
Red banana or banana Cuba is a fruit belonging to the genus Musa
like the dessert banana
The red banana is about 12 cm long and smaller than the dessert banana
The skin is a greenish -red to red color, caused by the
antioxidant beta- carotene
The flesh is cream to pale pink in color and the taste is slightly sweeter than the dessert banana
The fruit can be eaten fresh or cooked
The bake banana is a fruit that is eaten fried or boiled
Due to the high starch content is unripe, raw fruit difficult to digest
The bake banana is 30 to 40 cm long, so much longer than the dessert banana and has a hard shell
The color of the bake banana is green, yellow or reddish
In tropical countries the bake banana is an important part of the meal,
similar to the potatoes in Netherlands
Bake banana is used as the shell has become completely black
They make chips of unripe bake bananas
A banana plant or banana tree is actually an herb (the world's largest herb)
According to the horticultural definition banana belongs to the vegetables
According to the culinary definition it`s a fruit because the banana is eaten as a snack or as a dessert
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