Five Bananas Facts & Uses

How are we celebrating banana lovers everywhere? With four fun banana facts! First, Alex Dainis dives into the genetics of why the bananas we typically eat do not taste like banana-flavored candy: banana-flavored candy tastes like the Gros Michel banana, which was a clone and thus extremely susceptible to diseases. Next, Maynard Okereke teaches us how to use bananas as a biodegradable and nontoxic alternative to shoe polish. Then, Alex shows us how to reduce the environmental impact of the food we eat by replacing pulled pork with banana peels in a barbecue sandwich. Finally, we learn how to create our very own bioplastic bowl out of banana peels!

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[jaxrules]

You guys are so underrated. You deserve 10 million subscribers

[CapitalisticEmu]

This is 🍌🍌🍌!
Seriously though, pretty much every part of the banana plant is useful. You can eat the fruit, cook and eat the raw banana & the flowers, use the leaf as a dish/ plate, feed the leaf after to cattle, cook and eat the stem, pull fibres out of the stem and use as rope, knit as garments and use to bind things. And now, the peels are edible and usable too! 👍❤

[infernaldaedra]

True. The old grocery store variety went extinct the modern banana is on its way out also.

[paulcooper]

I have to say plátano when speaking to a Mexican and guineo when speaking to a Dominican. I digress. If bananas are all clones, why is there so much variation in size? Cheers…🍌