If you stay in a place where there is a lot of sunlight, it is easy to grow bananas.

In tropical countries bananas are non seasonal and fruit throughout the year. 

In places where winter has little sunlight, bananas which fail to mature before winter will be  remain dormant and continue to mature only when the season change. So may take more than a year for a plant to produce ripe bananas 🍌 

There are many varieties of bananas. In countries that import bananas, the most common variety sold in stores is Cavendish.

Cavendish is widely  grown as it is disease resistant.

Coming from an equatorial country that has many varieties of bananas, I can tell you that there are many varieties that taste better than Cavendish.

Store bought bananas do not taste as nice as home grown bananas. The bananas that you buy are harvested when they are still unripe. The bananas you eat may have been harvested as much as 4 weeks ago.

If you plant your own bananas, you can even let them ripen on the tree. I like to harvest my bananas when they are just starting to turn yellow. Such bananas are ready to eat after keeping for about 3 days. 

Allowing the fruit to remain on the plant for that extra 2 or 3 weeks gives the plant time to put so much food into the fruit and so they are much more delicious.

Unripe bananas contain mainly starch. As the banana ripens, the starch turns into sugar.

Certain varieties of bananas can be used for cooking when they are still unripe or just starting to ripen.

Bananas are a healthy source of fiber, potassium, vitamin B6, vitamin C, and various antioxidants including dopamine and catching. Bananas also contain phytonutrients.

Bananas have a relatively low glycemic index (GI) although it has starch and sugar. The starch it has is resistant starch and the fiber it has helps to keep its GI low.

The GI is a measure of how quickly carbs in food enter your bloodstream and raise blood sugar 

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