id: 208

name: Bananas

flavor_bible_name_variants: banana liqueur,bananas,bananas fruit,bananas liqueur,bananas unripe

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status: draft

source: foodb,flavor_bible

food_db_name: Banana

flavor_db_name_variants: banana

name_scientific: Musa acuminata

description: A banana is an edible fruit produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. (In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains.) The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible parthenocarpic (seedless) bananas come from two wild species - Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa × paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name Musa sapientum is no longer used.

itis_id: 42390

wikipedia_id: Banana

picture_file_name: 208.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 1285623

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:28:59.000Z

legacy_id: 223

food_group: Fruits

food_subgroup: Tropical fruits

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:26.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:19.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 4641

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00208