Lillie Nelson

The brown spots on a very ripe banana indicate that even more starch has been converted to sugar. The brown spots on a very ripe… Read More »Do Bananas With Brown Spots Have More Sugar?

Our ancestors in the palaeolithic period, which covers 2.5 million years ago to 12,000 years ago, are thought to have had a diet based on… Read More »What Did Cavemen Actually Eat?

Underneath their brown and yellow exterior, banana skins are lined with hundreds of tiny sacs of the gooey substance, which the scientists dubbed “polysaccharide follicular… Read More »What Is The Sticky Stuff On Bananas?

A relative asked about “that white talcy powder that is often on the outside of bananas” and says that “Woolworths describes it as “residues of… Read More »What Is This White Stuff On My Banana?

An unripe banana is harder to open, stem-side or not. Then, things got a bit more complicated. “I’m not trying to throw the balance off,… Read More »What Is The Top And Bottom Of A Banana?

A single banana is called a finger. A grouping of attached “fingers” make up a “hand” of bananas. Multiple hands that grow in a cluster… Read More »What Is A Stalk Of Bananas Called?

Uses of Banana Trees You can eat edible sweet bananas. You can eat edible banana fruit peels. You can even eat the stem. You can… Read More »What Can I Do With Banana Tree?

Man-made fruits and vegetables are those created by humans through cross-breeding and selective breeding to create new varieties with desirable traits such as flavor or… Read More »What Are Man Made Fruits?

Native to Columbia, the Baby banana grows on a tree-size plant in bunches of “hands”. Each hand can contain anywhere from 10-12 bananas, the individual… Read More »How Are Baby Bananas Made?