Banana Tree with more than 2,000 Fruits!

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BANANAS

Do you know?

• 1Banana is not a tree, it's a perennial herb and actually belongs to the family of berry! (I just used Banana Tree on the title since almost everybody thought banana is a tree. =) )
• 2'Banan' is an Arabic word which literally means finger.
• 3The largest producer of banana in the world is India, followed by Brazil.
• 4You could buy Banana Beer in Eastern Africa. The beer is from brewed bananas.
• 5The largest consumer of banana in the world are Ugandans. With an average of 500 pounds per person per year.
• 6Americans eat banana more than that of apple and orange combined. An average of 26.2 pounds of consumption per person per year.
• 7The banana leaf is also used to wrap food, providing a unique flavor and aroma to nasi lemak and the Indian banana leaf rice.
• 8There's over a 100 billion bananas eaten each year throughout the world making bananas the fourth most important agricultural crop after wheat, rice and corn.
• 9Bananas are radioactive because of their high potassium content. They contain potassium-40, a radioactive isotope.
• 10The banana flower is edible and often sold in the market in Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. In the Philippines banana flower is usually cooked with mung-beans and beef/pork and also made into a pickle as an appetizer.