Delicious and interesting facts about bananas Bashny.Net

I apologize in advance if someone in the process of reading this post unplanned want to eat. I could not ignore it. Under the cut interesting facts about the so beloved fruit. Perhaps the most appetizing post lately;) Be sure to look further!





Bananas also called the fruits of these plants used for food. Currently, different varieties of banana paradise (Musa × paradisiaca) - sterile triploid kultigena (hybrid species, not found in the wild), created on the basis of several species - widely cultivated in tropical countries, and many of them are the most important export article.

In some regions, the banana is one of the most important crops, second only to rice, wheat and corn.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2010, the number of post-harvest bananas are in seventh place among the crops.

The genus includes over 40 species, distributed mainly in South-East Asia and the Pacific Islands.

The northernmost species - Japanese banana (Musa basjoo), comes from the Japanese Ryukyu Islands, is grown as an ornamental plant on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, the Crimea and Georgia.

In many countries, bananas are a major source of power - for example, only in Ecuador, the annual consumption of this product is 73, 8 kg per capita (for comparison, in Russia the figure is 7, 29 kg). A significant proportion of the consumption of bananas also constitute in Burundi (189, 4 kg), Samoa (85, 0 kg), Comoros (77, 8 kg) and the Philippines (40, 6 kg).