![]() Banana consumption is said to lower the risk of heart attacks, strokes and getting cancer.Īnother banana factoid is that musa sapientum has more songs written about it than any other fruit, including: Yes We Have No Bananas The Banana Boat Song popularized by Harry Belafonte I Like Bananas (because they have no bones,) and the recent rage among youngsters the Minions’ Banana Song with easy to remember lyrics “Bananas… Bananas…bananas, bananas, bananas.” Indeed, singing about bananas and eating the ap-peeling fruit can make you happy, because it’s the only fruit that contains the amino acid tryptophan, which helps produce serotonin, a substance that alleviates depression, and the silly fruit can elicit a comic response to the slapstick antic of someone slipping on a banana peel. Bananas are low in fat and calories and a good source of vitamin B6, fiber and potassium, as well as phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper and selenium. Each year 100 billion bananas are consumed worldwide, and Americans eat about 27 pounds per person, more than half at breakfast. As comedian Groucho Marx said: “Time flies like an arrow fruit flies like a banana.”īananas once were commercially grown in southern California and Florida, but now Hawaii is the only state where the sweet yellow fruit is grown commercially. Then, before we knew it, 10 more years flew by and this past winter our recalcitrant musa sapientum (banana) plants produced their first harvest. In 2006, a miracle pineapple the size of a fist finally emerged. It was enough to put you off piña coladas. ![]() It took nine years of force-feeding us fresh pineapple so we could plant the tops hoping to produce homegrown Bromeliad ananas. Building on his citrus success, Binmeister planted three or four banana “herbs” and the tops of pineapples. Oranges don’t grow up north, so what did we know? In the fall we had oranges galore. He planted a Satsuma orange tree, not realizing that we had an existing Satsuma in the yard. ![]() When we moved to Florida’s First Coast the Bin’s master gardener wanted to raise fruit salad. Although they actually are berries, the word banana comes from the Arabic “banan” meaning finger. He’s excited, because at long last his banana trees - they’re classified as giant herbs - have produced hands of bananas. My spouse the Binmeister is going bananas. “Yes, we have no bananas, we have no bananas today.”
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