Bananas!!
This lens is about my favourite fruit (Or is it?)
Are you fed up with bringing bananas to work or school only to find them bruised and squashed?
Our unique, patented device allows for the safe transport and storage of individual bananas letting you enjoy perfect bananas anytime, anywhere.
The Banana Guard was specially designed to fit the vast majority of bananas.
It's other features include multiple small perforations to facilitate ventilation thereby preventing premature ripening and a sturdy locking mechanism to keep the Banana Guard closed.
The Banana Guard is of course dishwasher safe for easy cleaning.
This whole process started a few years ago when company President, David Agulnik, peeled a banana he had taken to work only to find that it was so bruised it had to be thrown away.
Sorely disappointed at this all too common occurrence, he got to thinking and an idea was born for more information about this wonderful device go now to.........
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And when you come back, relish and enjoy my lens about the wonderful banana!!
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Bananas
Banana is the common name used for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa, and is also the name given to the fruit of these plants. They are native to the tropical region of Southeast Asia, the Malay Archipelago, and Australia. Today, they are cultivated throughout the Tropics.Banana plants are of the family Musaceae. They are cultivated primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent for the production of fibre and as ornamental plants. Because of their size and structure, banana plants are often mistaken for trees. The main or upright growth is called a pseudostem, which for some species can obtain a height of up to 2-8 m, with leaves of up to 3.5 m in length. Each pseudostem produces a single bunch of bananas, before dying and being replaced by a new pseudostem.
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How to test your Bananaguard!!
Banana Guard Testing
Jonathan Bloom, of Fork & Spoon with Jonathan Bloom fame, tests the famed Banana Guard. For more food-related fun, visit www.forkandspoonblog.blogspot.com
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About Bananas........
The banana fruit grow in hanging clusters, with up to 20 fruit to a tier (called a hand), and 3-20 tiers to a bunch. The total of the hanging clusters is known as a bunch, or commercially as a "banana stem", and can weigh from 30-50 kg. The fruit averages 125 g, of which approximately 75% is water and 25% dry matter content. Each individual fruit (known as a banana or 'finger') has a protective outer layer (a peel or skin) with a fleshy edible inner portion. Typically the fruit has numerous strings (called 'phloem bundles') which run between the skin and the edible portion of the banana, and which are commonly removed individually after the skin is removed. Bananas are a valuable source of Vitamin A, Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, and potassium. Are You Bananas? vids
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Bananas are grown in 132 countries worldwide, more than any other fruit crop. In popular culture and commerce, "banana" usually refers to soft, sweet "dessert" bananas that are usually eaten raw. The bananas from a group of cultivars with firmer, starchier fruit are generally used in cooking rather than eaten raw. Bananas may also be dried and ground into banana flour. Although the wild species have fruits with numerous large, hard seeds, virtually all culinary bananas have seedless fruits. Bananas are classified either as dessert bananas (meaning they are yellow and fully ripe when eaten) or as green cooking bananas. Almost all export bananas are of the dessert types; however, only about 10-15% of all production is for export, with the U.S. and EU being the dominant buyers. Banana bookmarks
Are all banana's yellow?
Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors; most cultivars are yellow when ripe but some are red or purple. The ripe fruit is easily peeled and eaten raw or cooked. Depending upon cultivar and ripeness, the flesh can be starchy to sweet, and firm to mushy. Unripe or "green" bananas and plantains are used in cooking and are the staple starch of many tropical populations.Most production for local sale is of green cooking bananas and plantains, as ripe dessert bananas are easily damaged while being transported to market. Even when only transported within their country of origin, ripe bananas suffer a high rate of damage and loss.
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The commercial dessert cultivars most commonly eaten in temperate countries (species Musa acuminata or the hybrid Musa × paradisiaca, a cultigen) are imported in large quantities from the tropics. They are popular in part because being a non-seasonal crop they are available fresh year-round. In global commerce, by far the most important of these banana cultivars is 'Cavendish', which accounts for the vast bulk of bananas exported from the tropics. The Cavendish gained popularity in the 1950s after the previously mass produced cultivar, Gros Michel, was destroyed by Panama disease, a fungus which attacks the roots of the banana plant.The most important properties making 'Cavendish' the main export banana are related to transport and shelf life rather than taste; major commercial cultivars rarely have a superior flavour compared to the less widespread cultivars. Export bananas are picked green, and then usually ripened in ripening rooms when they arrive in their country of destination. These are special rooms made air-tight and filled with ethylene gas to induce ripening. Bananas can be ordered by the retailer "ungassed", however, and may show up at the supermarket still fully green. While these bananas will ripen more slowly, the flavour will be notably richer, and the banana peel can be allowed to reach a yellow/brown speckled phase, and yet retain a firm flesh inside. Thus, shelf life is somewhat extended. The flavour and texture of bananas are affected by the temperature at which they ripen. Bananas are refrigerated to between 13.5 and 15 °C (57 and 59 °F) during transportation. At lower temperatures, the ripening of bananas permanently stalls, and the bananas will eventually turn grey.
It should be noted that Musa × paradisiaca is also the generic name for the common plantain, a coarser and starchier variant not to be confused with Musa acuminata or the Cavendish variety. Plantains have all but replaced the Cavendish in markets dominated by supply-side logistics.
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A banana is a curved tropical fruit with a thick, yellow skin (when ripe, otherwise green) and soft cream-colored pulpy flesh which you can eat. Bananas grow on trees in large bunches.
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ElizabethJeanAllen
Welcome to The Totally Awesome Lenses Group. Posted October 12, 2008 |
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Catalysthere
Thanks for your comments, it is great to see so many Banana Fans out there :-) Posted August 28, 2008 |
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NZgurugirl
Hey there, great idea for a banana! I always have that problem! Also so much information about the little fruit too! Posted July 21, 2008 |
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I love bananas! It's a great cure-all fruit! It's good for people with hypertension, hemorrhoids, asthma, a great energy food, natural sugar content, even good for wounds (rub the rind on the affected area) or you can even shine your shoe with it! I always see to it that my family gets the right amount of bananas everyday! We're one happy monkey family! ik ik ik! Thanks for sharing this wonderful lens of yours! by the way, would also like to share a site where you can buy cheap personal checks from Disney personal checks to cool photo checks where you can put photos of your own choice!!!!Have a nice day! Posted July 10, 2008 |
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rms
Great work on this lens. I'm featuring it on my Banana Cream Pie Recipe lens! Posted March 18, 2008 |
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DianeStafford
I visited the banana plantations in St Lucia, amazing to see them growing, nice lens, nice bananas :>) Posted February 25, 2008 |