Banana

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• DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Except for there is like a 1 hour window when they taste really good and have a good texture. In between when they’re green and taste like chalk and when they’re full yellow and taste like mushy baby food.

  Right in that 1 hour window? Delicious.

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  • nixus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    *Avocados have entered the chat*

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  • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t know what the deal is with people who say that. They’re good for several days, and they even have a very convenient method for showing you whether they’re good or not. You don’t really need bananas to last more than a few days, because by then, they’re all eaten.

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  • Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I met someone that likes it a little green and not soft. We don’t talk anymore. /S

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    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sounds like mofongo which is fucking delicious!

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  • Capernaum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is so true, it’s such a small window of being perfect. Meanwhile oranges are just chilling.

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• ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They have strings and the little brown tip.

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  • CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That “little brown tip” is called the bananus.

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    • brap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Fuck you, that snort I made when I read that almost woke up my toddler. Fucking bananus 🤣

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  • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bananas are acoustic guitars.

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    • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      All bananas are guitars, but not all guitars are bananas

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hey, what do you have against little brown tips?

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• piwakawakas@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And yet supermarkets wrap them in plastic on a polystyrene tray…

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s counterproductive in terms of shelf life, and just plain gross. If your market does this, vote with your wallet and go somewhere else.

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    • piwakawakas@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not mine specifically, but I’ve seen pictures online. It’s a complete garbage move and yeah, plain gross!

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The massive amounts of pesticides they spray on the banana plantations is pretty bad.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, get Bio and Fairtrade?

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• lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bananas make my tummy hurt.

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  • TheCynicalSaint@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They give me a weird mouth feel, kinda tingling and burning.

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  • TheTurner@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They do that to me as well.

    I’m allergic to fruits in the Sapindaceae family too.

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    • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • lukaro@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bananas and coffee don’t mix, coffee is life so therefore no bananas for me.

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    • Akrenion@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can you elaborate on that?

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    • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ll be honest, coffee and banana is my morning routine

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• rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe are heavily contaminated with chlordecone,[19] following years of its massive and unrestricted use on banana plantations: primarily against Cosmopolites sordidus.[20][21] Despite a 1990 ban on the substance in mainland France, the economically powerful banana planters lobbied intensively to obtain a waiver to keep using Kepone until 1993. They argued that no alternative pesticide was available, which has since been disputed. After the 1993 ban, the banana planters were discreetly granted derogations to use their remaining stocks, and a 2005 report prepared by the French National Assembly states that after the 1993 ban was imposed, the chemical was illegally imported to the islands under the name Curlone, and continued to be used for many years.[9] Since 2003, local authorities in the two islands have restricted the cultivation of various food crops because the soil is badly contaminated by chlordecone. A 2018 large-scale study by the French public health agency, Santé publique France, shows that 95% of the inhabitants of Guadeloupe and 92% of those of Martinique are contaminated by the chemical.[22] Guadeloupe has one of the highest prostate cancer diagnosis rates in the world.[23]

  If you know how to read french, there is this comic book from Jessica Oublié, this is really well documented and sadly amazing to read, there are lots of french colonization implications in this story, obviously. The other comic about caribbean colonization by Jessica Oublié is also very impressive work.

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• bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We are one minor mutation of a common banana disease away from having to get an entirely new kind of banana, and frankly we are not prepared for that.

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    bananas are mid anyway, like red apples. nothing of value lost

    they dont even have a lot of potassium, you’d have to eat like 70 bananas to get rdv of potassium.

    you want rdv potassium (or most any other vitamin) you need to eat fucking vegetables

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    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You have to eat approximately 10 bananas for rdv of potassium.

      rdv for potassium is 4500mg. A banana contains approximately 420-550mg of potassium.

      While 70 bananas is probably not going to kill you, ld50 for potassium is 2500mg/kg, that much potassium can exacerbate some heart problems.

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    • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Two words: banana bread.

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What’s with the weird censoring of the post metadata? Do we not want to credit the original poster for some reason?

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  • Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • m532@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Post metadata gets automatically removed so people don’t accidentally dox themselves

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• rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  constipation

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bananas are rich in fiber.

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    • rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We’re both right.

      More ripe = better

      Less ripe = butt-plug

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• Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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

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  • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    High glycemic index

    glycemic-index.net/low-glycemic-index-foods/

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    • dontsayaword@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Seems pretty high according to this list, 48

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• Shrubbery@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  • comes in its own wrapper
  • zero mess, zero cleanup, zero prep

  Choose one.

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  • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wrapper is edible though

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      After all the chemical treatment? Sorry, no.

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  • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wrapper is totally biodegradable. Just toss it.

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• mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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…

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  • philpo@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • bobo@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Cavendish banana is a monoculture

    Who could have guessed a banana cultivar is a method of growing crops

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  • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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)

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    • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There are a handful of places still growing Gros Michel on a very small scale, hence the "very probably" modifier.

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  you forgot

  • delicious

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• TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The Bananas War

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• quoll@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  bad: shelf life of a banana

  good: fun to spell

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  • HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    B! - A - N - A - N - A - S!

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• AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think you understand. By adding the banana, you are canceling out the benefits of all of those other things.

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• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They’re lousy as long term art pieces.

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• Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My GI tract always hates bananas, for whatever reason. That’s my main con.

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• FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve got 2 bad things

  1. 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.

  2. Fruit flies.

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• tino@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  one bad thing: chlordecone

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• kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They attract mosquitoes

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• justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I strongly dislike their taste and am allergic to them, but yeah that are individual problems. Also… why is high kalium so important?

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because you can make explosives out of that.

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  • MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Aside from the explosions I think kalium a good precaution against cramps in sports.

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• Xenny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Bananas can replace egg when baking desserts. 34 grams of banana per one egg is perfect btw.

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• kalapala@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  New banana isn’t as sweet as the old banana and old one doesn’t seem to be coming back?

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • Manjushri@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • kalapala@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      fusarium wilt

      Mmmmm, fusarium wilt!

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  • T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ooh, banana!

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  • PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Kong! Kong! Don-key Kong!

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Naners!

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• bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean it’s pretty inefficient to pack up due to their weird shape i bet that > 20% of the box volume in which they are shipped in is just empty space.

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• Hagenman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I can name one bad thing. It was used as example of intelligent design by Kirk Cameron…

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• TheSlad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tastes yucky 🤮

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• Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m in the clemantine camp

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