name: French Plantain

flavor_db_name_variants: french plantain

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: French plantain

id: 436

name_scientific: Musa X paradisiaca

description: Musa × paradisiaca is the accepted name for the hybrid between Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Most cultivated bananas and plantains are triploid cultivars either of this hybrid or of M.  acuminata. Linnaeus originally used the name M.  paradisiaca only for plantains or cooking bananas, but the modern usage includes hybrid cultivars used both for cooking and as dessert bananas.

itis_id: 42391

wikipedia_id: Musa × paradisiaca

picture_file_name: 444.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 31093

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:38:02.000Z

legacy_id: 471

food_group: Fruits

food_subgroup: Tropical fruits

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:42.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:25.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 89151

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00436