• Question: There are many types of apples and pears, but are there different types of bannana?

    Asked by matthewb to Alex, Jools, Lynz, Matt, Rika on 23 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Julie Greensmith

      Julie Greensmith answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      Yes, but the types of banana have been so tightly regulated in the european union that many places can only sell the one type. There are not so many as apples as bananas have been selectively bred and form what we call a ‘monoculture’. For commercial food uses there are not so many, but in the tropics diversity still exists.

    • Photo: Chandrika Nair

      Chandrika Nair answered on 22 Jun 2011:

      Even though bananas all look the same in Europe, you get a much bigger variety in South East Asia, where they originate. Personally, I really like the smaller and tastier (sweeter, more sour) ones you can get in places like Malaysia and Singapore.

    • Photo: Alex Davenport

      Alex Davenport answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      My parents have a red banana tree in their back garden, the bananas are delicious but you have to check that there arnt any spiders hanging inside the bundles!

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