High glycemic index.
Has to be imported from tropical to non-tropical regions.
Cavendish variety, pictured above is susceptible to Fusarium wilt aka Panama disease
Banana
Submitted 3 months ago by mmmm@sopuli.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 3 months ago
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
High glycemic index
dontsayaword@piefed.social 3 months ago
Seems pretty high according to this list, 48
rakete@feddit.org 3 months ago
It’s radioaktiv
Triumph@fedia.io 3 months ago
The Cavendish banana is a monoculture that your grandkids will never know, the same way that you’ve (very probably) never had a Gros Michel.
bobo@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
The Cavendish banana is a monoculture
Who could have guessed a banana cultivar is a method of growing crops
voodooattack@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Huh. I still see Gros Michel (or a relatively similar breed) at markets from time to time where I live (although I’m in the Middle East)
Triumph@fedia.io 3 months ago
There are a handful of places still growing Gros Michel on a very small scale, hence the "very probably" modifier.
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 3 months ago
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Look up the history of the banana trade.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The massive amounts of pesticides they spray on the banana plantations is pretty bad.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I mean, get Bio and Fairtrade?
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
What do you mean zero cleanup? Now I have to carry around a banana peel all day. All hail apples (yes, I eat the core).
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 3 months ago
I eat the core too! There’s nowt wrong with eating the core
CyberTailor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It contains cyanides, so if you eat too many apples this way, expect headache
loldog191@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
me too! but this one time in high school calculus, my classmate beside me ate the core and put the seeds and stem on a napkin, like i usually did. but then he proceeded to pour them all into his hand and SWALLOW IT IN ONE BIG GULP, and ngl it really pissed me off for some reason. after that, i preferred eating oranges.
quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
bad: shelf life of a banana
good: fun to spell
HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
They tend to go extinct every so often and need a different variety to replace them.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is there concern about the cavendish?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Yes. Cavendish is in trouble.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I could be just parroting a myth, but aren’t they all genetic clones? So anything that evolves to attack one has evolved to attack all, potentially quickly wiping out just about all of them. And I think this happened with the banana we used before this one so now they’re rare and super expensive.
Through standardizing the banana, we’ve removed biodiversity.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Banana smell is so powerful if you leave a banana in the fridge over night any non protected food will taste like a banana
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
What if I hire a bodyguard for the banana?
ygurin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
A feature not a bug
ranzispa@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Also you harvest them every two weeks. Want to sell them already? Just stick them under a plastic carp for a couple of days and they’ll be ripe and yellow.
The bad part is loading trucks of bananas is hard work, those things are heavy.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 3 months ago
The bad part is loading trucks of bananas is hard work, those things are heavy.
The worst part is when daylight come and me wan’ go home but the tally man won’t tally me banana.
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 3 months ago
will any plastic fish work or is it necessary to have a plastic carp?
ranzispa@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Carp for best results, may be substituted with salmon or tuna but do not expect the same quality.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Come Mr tallyman
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve got 2 bad things
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The included wrapper isn’t very rigid and can split and mash around. I’ve had several bananas turn to paste if they are forgotten about in a backpack or work their way to the bottom and end up crushed by other items.
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Fruit flies.
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lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Bananas make my tummy hurt.
TheCynicalSaint@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
They give me a weird mouth feel, kinda tingling and burning.
TheTurner@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
They do that to me as well.
I’m allergic to fruits in the Sapindaceae family too.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Not sure what all is included in that but I am slightly allergic to some other fruits as well, they just make my ears itchy though, not upset stomach like bananas do.
lukaro@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Bananas and coffee don’t mix, coffee is life so therefore no bananas for me.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ll be honest, coffee and banana is my morning routine
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
even one bite makes gives me such an insane stomach pain and nausea that I’m crying in my bed for three days. and it’s not stomach cramps, it just feels like my entire belly will explode and nothing comes out. years ago i could eat them just fine, but now it’s also pears and berries…
philpo@feddit.org 3 months ago
Get an allergy test. Banana allergies (even though that doesn’t necessarily sound like one) are associated with other allergies,including some medications.
So…you might want to know in advance.
If it is not that then try biobananas once. A lot of people are sensitive to the pesticides used.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They’re lousy as long term art pieces.
kalapala@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
New banana isn’t as sweet as the old banana and old one doesn’t seem to be coming back?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Being monocultures, (genetic clones) commercially grown edible bananas are extremely vulnerable to disease.
The currently most popular variant is the Cavendish, replacing the earlier and now extinct Gros Michel, wiped out by the Panama Disease (a fungus).
While the Gros Michel isn’t coming back, people are apparently trying to create and grow new variants, as what happened before can happen again.
Manjushri@piefed.social 3 months ago
Do you mean the Gros Michel banana ? It went commercially extinct in the ‘60s due to a fungus. So, yeah, probably not coming back. Sadly, the Cavendish banana is also subject to the same fungus so may also get wiped out at some point in the future.
But Race 4 (also known as TR4 or fusarium wilt), the new version of Panama disease that started affecting crops in the subtropics in the 1980s and wiping them out, has since moved to infect crops in the Vietnam, Laos, Pakistan, India, Mozambique, and Australia. In 2019, Colombia declared a national disaster when it was discovered there. As it inches closer to Latin America, the likelihood of losing the Cavendish increases.
kalapala@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I guess not as I remember having some actually tasty imported bananas in 90’s. No idea what happened but currently only even a bit tasty ones are natural and really small and still not as sweet.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 months ago
fusarium wilt
Mmmmm, fusarium wilt!
T156@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s still around. It just got replaced by the new banana for produce.
You can still buy Gros Michel bananas, they’re just harder to find compared to a Cavendish.
kalapala@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Any ideas where to search or where to travel to find those?
curiousaur@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Its almost as good as potato!
mmmm@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
As much as I love potatoes and that they came from this little corner in the world, unlike bananas they have to be cleaned up. I know this because my father grew potatoes all of his life. Alas bananas won in that aspect.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 months ago
And cooked.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 months ago
1 bad thing of the disease that decimates the crops
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 months ago
on a monocrop, of a sterile clone that is. oranges are similar and equally susceptible. if they arnt grafted on a trifoliate orange rootstock(the trifoliate has the benefit of being a wild type orange which is very cold hardy and disease resistant, also posses the spines on thier leaves of ancestral oranges/citrus, the trifoliate is usually not very edible, because they are very bitter)
Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Honeybee alarm pheromone smells exactly like bananas.
If you’re a beekeeper you either already know about it or can test it. Just make sure you’re in a bee suit, they will attack you.
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 months ago
I learned this the hard way lol, mangoes also fo that.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
you forgot
- delicious
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
My GI tract always hates bananas, for whatever reason. That’s my main con.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 3 months ago
They attract mosquitoes
Xenny@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Bananas can replace egg when baking desserts. 34 grams of banana per one egg is perfect btw.
Hagenman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I can name one bad thing. It was used as example of intelligent design by Kirk Cameron…
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Looked at another way, you might say that banana made him look like a fool and publicly humiliated him without so much as a word.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 months ago
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Bananas are way overrated. Not nearly as much potassium as potatoes. As far as fruits go, they are lower fiber, high sugar (aka the not good kind of carbs).
And you know how they turn brown quickly after being exposed to air? That process virtually eliminates the absorption of any sources of antioxidants that it might be mixed with. Like adding bananas to your smoothies? If you were hoping for health benefits, you just wasted your money.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I am not a moron lol, I add the banana to my smoothie as a sweetener and to make it creamy, I add the spinach leaves, chia seeds, flax seeds and walnuts for health, along with a bunch of protein
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
I don’t think you understand. By adding the banana, you are canceling out the benefits of all of those other things.
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Tastes yucky 🤮
bryndos@fedia.io 3 months ago
They automatically come with a sense of scale.
anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
<Shitty New Zealand accent> And if you look here, there’s a convenient little tab that god put right 'ere to make it easy to open
LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 3 months ago
That’s actually the handle for holding it while you eat. Far fewer stringy bits get in the way if you pinch the bottom of it and split the peel from that end
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I like how the person is placing a banana to show scale/size.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
What’s with the weird censoring of the post metadata? Do we not want to credit the original poster for some reason?
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio 3 months ago
Its a thing on a lot of forums, no identifying information blah blah blah… So reposts such as this will often be edited to high hell lol.
m532@lemmygrad.ml 3 months ago
Post metadata gets automatically removed so people don’t accidentally dox themselves