Bananas

Peculiar characteristics:
>Is the most well known and eaten (tropical) fruit;
>In Eastern Africa you can buy banana beer. This beer is brewed from bananas;
>Tropical fruit is usually picked unripe and has to ripen in the land of arrival. To make this process go faster bananas are treated with ethylene-gas. Normal bananas also ripen through ethylene -gas but exposing it to additional gas accelerates the process;
>Is the (only) fruit that for some people can work fatting because they contain a lot of starch (more starch than sugar). Those people shouldn't eat too many bananas a day;
>Eat at least one banana a day, they are said to contain everything a human needs and they contain all the 8 amino-acids our body cannot produce itself.
>Bananas are a good source of fiber, potassium and vitamin C;
>Red bananas are often dried and converted to meal which is used in many ways;
>Red bananas contain more vitamin C as yellow bananas (the redder a fruit, the more nutritious elements it contains).