Know Your Bananas – 12 varieties from dessert to cooking banana, minimalist kitchen poster by CRISWLV

Know your
Bananas

12 varieties from dessert to cooking banana

Twelve banana varieties from dessert to cooking banana, from Cavendish and Gros Michel to red, blue and plantain bananas, with taste and origin.

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  1. Cavendish Sweet & mild · the export standard Southeast Asia · grown worldwide
  2. Red Dacca Creamy · faint raspberry note Southeast Asia · tropics
  3. Blue Java Vanilla taste · ice-cream texture Southeast Asia · Hawaii
  4. Gros Michel Nearly wiped out by Panama disease Export banana until the 1950s
  5. Plantain Starchy · fried, boiled or baked West Africa · Latin America
  6. Lady Finger Small, thin-skinned · very sweet Southeast Asia · Latin America
  7. Manzano Notes of apple and strawberry India · Latin America
  8. Fe’i Grows upright · orange flesh Pacific Islands · Tahiti
  9. Burro Stubby & angular · lemony tang Mexico · Central America
  10. Saba Cooking banana · banana cue, turon Philippines
  11. Pisang Raja Honey-sweet · for pisang goreng Indonesia · Malaysia
  12. Goldfinger Disease-resistant · slightly tart FHIA-01 · bred in Honduras

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