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Baby banana- how cute!

royalbanana — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:10:00 +0000

Did you know that baby bananas are not called baby bananas because they’re fed to little babies, but because they don’t grow taller than 7,5 cm? Instead they develop a great and sweet, but also very intense flavor and simply taste delicious. They’re also called Ladyfinger and are majorly cultivated in Columbia, Thailand and Malaysia. Little people, little fruits. Makes sense.

Cavendish makes the banana a royal

royalbanana — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:23:00 +0000

Did you know that the name of the today economically most important banana is Cavendish? Named after William Cavendish who had already planted bananas from China in 1830? This William Cavendish was the sixth duke of Devonshire and I’m wondering why the banana’s yellow and not blue. What with the royality and everything..

Full of banana

royalbanana — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:14:00 +0000

When nothing goes anymore, bananaskeep going. At the Frankfurter Großmarkt there’s a weekly conversion of about 360 tons of banana. That’s about 3,5 million bananas weekly. And that’s although the zoo is in Berlin. Or am I messing things up right now?

There is no banana!

royalbanana — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:23:00 +0000

The bananas you can find in our heights are fruit bananas. You have many different colors, shapes and sizes to pick from. But in the tropical regions, the plantains are so much more important, because they belong to these people’s staple foods.

Cool bananas

royalbanana — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:46:00 +0000

Did you know that bananas were only successful as groceries, when people managed to keep the fruits cool? They used to try to transport the bananas on ships by keeping them cool with ventilators. Only with the invention of steam motors and the cooling did the bananas start their successful path into the world.