Banana 01

The first non-Indian written source in which one can find a mention of a banana is considered to be the “History of Plants” by the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus, who lived in the 4th century BC. e. In this work, the philosopher made the first attempt at a systematic description of plants, thanks to which he is considered one of the founders of botany

Banana 01 name of edible fruits of cultivated plants of the genus Banana

In particular, the book Aranya-kanda from the Ramayana says that members of the royal family wore clothes woven from fibers of banana leaves

Banana 01 name of edible fruits of cultivated plants of the genus Banana

The first modern scientist to establish the geographical origin of bananas was one of the founders of scientific selection, Academician N. I. Vavilov, who in the 1920s-1930s explored various regions of the world and described the results in the work “Centers of Origin of Cultivated Plants”

In many countries, bananas are one of the main sources of nutrition - for example, in Ecuador alone, the annual consumption of this product is 73.8 kg per person (for comparison, in Russia this figure is 7.29 kg).

In addition to being consumed fresh, in the cuisine of some peoples bananas can be fried or boiled in either peeled or unpeeled form[1][5]. They are also dried, canned, and used to make banana flour, marmalade, syrups, and wines. Bananas are also used as livestock feed

The fruits of Ensete ventricosum [en] (strictly speaking, which is a representative of another genus of the Banana family) can also be called bananas. From a botanical point of view, banana is a berry, polyspermous and thick-skinned.

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