
"BANANA" is an acronym that stands for either "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything" or "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone". The term is used to criticise the ongoing opposition of certain interest groups to land development. The term criticises activists who apparently oppose every instance of proposed development, which may give the impression that the activist seeks to see no new growth. Compare with the much better known acronym NIMBY, which describes situations where development is protested by local groups who do not want the development in "their backyard". == See also == *Drawbridge mentality Acronyms Environment Urban studies and planning
== Neologism? == There's a notable lack of references for this apparent neologism. Anyone got any? The POV-pushing tone could do with work too, courtesy said references - User:David Gerard 00:30, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) :I've seen it in ''The New York Times,'' although I don't have a link to a specific article handy. User:216.214.103.34 18:01, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::[http://www.wordspy.com/words/BANANA.asp Wordspy] lists the earliest known appearance of this phrase to The Sydney Morning Herald in January 1991. Additional googling indicates that it's in reasonably wide circulation. User:Feco 02:35, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:''For other meanings, see banana (disambiguation)'' Hybrid origin; see text A banana is a tree-like plant (though strictly an herb) of the genus ''Musa (Musaceae)'' in the family (biology) Musaceae, closely related to plantains. The term ''banana'' is also applied to the elongated fruit (technically a false berry), which grows (in edible species and varieties) in hanging clusters, several to many fruits to a tier (called a ''hand''), many tiers to a bunch. The total of hanging clusters is called a 'stem' in the commercial world. The banana was originally cultivated by pre-historic peoples in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. The flavour and texture of many kinds of bananas are affected by the temperature at which they ripen. Bananas are spoilt and turn grey at low temperatures and are only refrigerated down to 13.5 degrees Celsius during transportation. In 2002, over 68 million tonnes were harvested of which 12 million tonnes were traded worldwide, with Ecuador, Costa Rica, Colombia and the Philippines exporting over 1 million tonnes of bananas each. ==History== The banana is mentioned for the first time in history in Buddhist texts in 600 BC. Alexander the Great discovered the taste of the banana in the valleys of India in 327 BC. The existence of an organized banana plantation could be found in China back in the year 200 AD. In 650, Islamic conquerors brought the banana to Palestine (region). Arab merchants eventually spread bananas over much of Africa. In 1502, Portugal colonists started the first banana plantations in the Caribbean and in Central America. ==Properties== Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors. The ripe fruit is easily peeled and eaten raw or cooked. Depending upon variety and ripeness, the flesh can be starchy to sweet, and firm to mushy. Unripe or 'green' plantains and bananas are used in cooking and are the staple starch of some tropical populations. While the original bananas contained rather large seeds, seedless and polyploid varieties have been selected for human consumption. These are propagated asexual reproduction from offshoots of the plant. These offshoots are called followers or suckers in the trade, and one or two of them are the source for the next stem of fruit the plant produces, because the plant is normally cut down at the time of harvest. A stem of bananas can weigh from 30-50 kg, and they are usually carried on the shoulder. The commercial sweet varieties most commonly eaten in temperate countries (species ''Musa acuminata'' or the hybrid ''Musa x paradisiaca'', a cultigen) are imported in large quantities from the tropics, where they are popular in part because they are available fresh year-round. In global commerce, by far the most important of these banana cultivars is 'Cavendish', which accounts for the vast bulk of bananas exported outside of the tropics. Banana chips are a snack produced from bananas. Bananas have also been used in the making of jam. However unlike other fruits, bananas have only recently been used to prepare juice and squash_(drink)es. Despite an 85 % water content, it has historically been difficult to extract juice from the fruit because when compressed, a banana simply turns to pulp. In 2004, scientists at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India, patented a technique for extracting juice by treating banana pulp in a reaction vessel for four to six hours [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1087416.htm]. In addition to the fruits, the flower of the banana plant (also known as ''banana blossom'' or ''banana heart'') is used in South-East Asian and Kerala (India) cooking, either served raw with dips or cooked in soups and curries. The tender core of the banana plant's trunk is also used, notably in Burma and Kerala (India) cooking. == Banana pests and diseases == Bananas are subject to many pests and diseases, which can reduce crop yields. The limited genetic diversity of cultivated bananas (which is due to their asexual reproduction) make them vulnerable to diseases such as Black Sigatoka, and new strains of Panama disease, caused by the fungus ''Fusarium''. Vegetative propagation (essential due to the lack of viable seeds in commercial bananas) has also resulted in the spread of virus disease across banana-growing areas on the world. Commercially important virus diseases of bananas include badnaviruses, which are responsible for banana streak disease. This disease is thought to arise from virus DNA integrated in the nuclear genome of Musa balbisiana, one of the wild species contributing to many of the banana cultivars currently grown. Banana streak disease can present a variety of symptoms, or may have little or no effect on infected banana plants if they are given plenty of fertilizer and well managed. Banana bunchy top virus is the most destructive banana virus in Asia, only has two effective methods of control - eradication of infected plants, and control of aphid vectors which spread the infection. In 2003 Belgium plant pathology Emile Frison of the International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain stated that the dominant commercial banana cultivar 'Cavendish' may become extinction within 10 years. The magazine ''New Scientist'' added, "We may see the extinction of the banana, currently a lifesaver for famine and poverty Africans and the most popular product on the world's supermarket shelves". The predecessor to 'Cavendish', the cultivar 'Gros Michel', had already suffered a similar fate. However, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization, 'Cavendish' bananas make up about 10% of the total world banana crop, with small-scale farmers continuing to grow numerous other varieties which retain far greater genetic diversity, but which do not enter significantly into world trade, being consumed locally. == Nutritional value and dietary effects == Bananas contain about 74% water, 23% carbohydrates, 1% proteins, 0.5% fat, and 2.6% dietary fiber (these values vary between different banana cultivars, degree of ripeness and growing conditions). In an unripe banana the carbohydrates are mostly starches. In the process of ripenening the starches are converted to sugars; a fully ripe banana has only 1-2% starch. Besides being a good source of energy, banana is a rich source of potassium, and hence is highly recommended for patients suffering from high blood pressure. It is claimed that bananas have beneficial effect in the treatment of intestinal disorders, including diarrhoea (diarrhea). Bananas are unusual in that they work for constipation too. They contain mucilaginous bulking substances and are easy to digest. Other fruit which may also be good for intestinal conditions include mangoes, figs, pineapple, and papaya. ==Banana trade== Bananas are among the most widely consumed fruits in the world. However, many banana farmers receive a low price for their produce. This has led to bananas being available as a 'fair trade' item in some countries. The banana has an extensive trade history beginning with the founding of the United Fruit Company at the end of the nineteenth century. For much of the 20th century, bananas and coffee dominated the export economies of Central America. In the 1930s, bananas and coffee made up as much as 75 percent of the region's exports. As late as 1960, the two crops accounted for 67 percent of the exports from the region. Though the two were grown in similar regions, they tended not to be distributed together. The United Fruit Company based its business almost entirely on the banana trade, as the coffee trade proved too difficult for them to control. The term "banana republic" has been broadly applied to the countries in the region, but from a strict economic perspective only Costa Rica, Honduras, and Panama were actual "banana republics" – countries with economies dominated by the banana trade. (Source of statistics: Skidmore, T., Smith, P., (2001) Modern Latin America (5th edition). New York: Oxford University Press) ==Attitudes toward bananas== Bananas are one of the most popular fruits among all peoples of all origins. Despite this, they are seen by some White supremacy as "monkey food", and have been used for racism insults, such as throwing bananas at sports players of African descent (e.g. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/world_football/2399629.stm]). In the video game Final Fantasy Legend II, bananas are banned in the world of Edo, the ninth world. Bananas are also humorously used as a phallic symbol (a metaphor for the human penis) due to similarities in size and shape. The depiction of a person slipping on a banana peel has been a staple of physical comedy for generations. A 1906 comedy record produced by Edison Records features a popular character of the time, "Cal Stewart" claiming to describe his own such incident, saying: :I don't think much of a man what throws a bananer peelin' on the sidewalk, and I don't think much of a bananer what throws a man on the sidewalk, neether. ... my foot hit that bananer peelin' and I went up in the air, and cum down ker-plunk, and fer about a minnit I seen all the stars what stronomy tells about, and some that haint been discovered yit. Wall jist as I wuz pickin' myself up a little boy cum runnin' cross the street and he sed 'Oh mister, won't you please do that agin, my mother didn't see you do it.' ==Urban legends== In the 1940s and 1950s, an urban legend involved tarantulas hidden among bunches of bananas. It should be noted that, while tarantulas do not hide in bananas, certain other large exotic spiders have been known to (see Brazilian wandering spider). These spiders are quite venomous and highly aggressive. It is also an urban legend that the dried skin of banana fruit is hallucinogenic when smoked. Unlike many urban legends, the origin of this one has been traced. It dates back to an article in the student newspaper ''Berkeley Barb'' in March 1967, which got the story from the singer Country Joe McDonald. This was brought to attention once more in the late 1980s, when the satiric punk group Dead Milkmen published an album concerning the effects of smoking banana peels. Even the FDA investigated. As with the spider legend, this legend is also not entirely without merit. The darkening of ripening bananas, proceeding from yellow, to brown, to black, is mainly due to large amounts of serotonin (an important human neurotransmitter), which is produced from tryptophan in banana peels. While this property would seem to implicate bananas as a natural antidepressant, such is not the case. Upon ingestion, serotonin is immediately broken down by enzymes in the stomach (particularly monoamine oxidase). Due to its high melting point (213° C), serotonin is unsuitable for smoking and decomposes into toxic gases (carbon and nitrogen oxides) during combustion. Additionally, it cannot cross the blood-brain barrier. ==Home remedy== The inner surface of a banana peel may be rubbed on a poison ivy to abate symptoms. ==See also== * The Banana Song * Banana republic - a pejorative term for describing a country with a corrupt, usually military dictatorship * Banana Republic - a chain of clothing stores owned by Gap Inc. * Bananas Foster - a dessert from New Orleans, Louisiana *Bananas (movie) - A film by Woody Allen *Plantain - a type of `woody' banana ==Reference== *FAO. [http://www.fao.org/es/esc/en/20953/20987/highlight_28367en.html Bananas Commodity notes: Final results of the 2003 season], 2004 == External links == * [http://www.inibap.org/ International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP)] * [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/banana.html Banana] by Julia Morton, ''Fruits of Warm Climates'', pp. 29–46. * [http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2003/13120-en.html Further details] from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. * [http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/banana.html Banana Fruit Facts] California Rare Fruit Growers Organization. Zingiberales fruit ms:Pisang simple:Banana
What does this mean? -- ''We may see the extinction of the banana as both a lifesaver for hungry and impoverished Africans and as the most popular product on the world's supermarket shelves'' -- if it's extinct, how can it be popular? It will be popular because it becomes extinct? How can its extinction be a lifesaver for hungry and impoverished Africans? None of this makes sense. -- User:Zoe Look at the sentence in the article again, it says "currently" where you have "as", which changes the meaning. Maybe someone changed it since you saw it. Here is another place to read about the possible disappearence of bananas, if you are curious. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2664373.stm --User:Qaz :Yeah, it changed since I wrote the above, because I copied and pasted the sentence. -- User:Zoe re Zoe's comment: ROFL -User:Stevertigo hehe I read about the predicted extinction about a year ago in New Scientist, and I still don't get it. Firstly, why does someone think such disease is finally going to strike at this time? Secondly, why on earth (or indeed any planet) would it wipe out the African, Asian and Latin American crops all together? -- User:Smjg 11:04, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC) :If it kills enough, there will be inadequate genetic diversity to propagate indefinitely. Even a disease that kills only half of the crops could eventually cause the extinction of the entire breed. User:Kent Wang 22:27, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC) ::If something starts killing them in one area, couldn't someone clear the field, take measures to clear the area of the disease, and then replant them from elsewhere? -- User:Smjg 11:10, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC) ---- I've read somewhere that the banana tree is not a tree per se, but rather an herb. Any truth to this? User:Kent Wang 22:28, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC) == leet == as an avid banana fan i found this article to be just ''dandy''.User:Xmnemonic 21:28, 29 May 2004 (UTC) == Bananaphone == Something to lighten the mood... [http://www.filmbuffs.net/bananana/ Bananaphone] Enjoy :) : bananas are no laughing matter. User:Xmnemonic 20:10, 2004 Jun 27 (UTC) == Monkeys == As it seems to me, bananas ARE stereotypically eaten by monkeys (and apes, for that matter). Why delete that? User:Rhymeless 19:23, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC) : eye agree User:Xmnemonic 11:00, 2004 Jun 24 (UTC) ::I've put it back. Can someone show me a pic of a banana with a monkey ? User:Jay 12:05, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC) :::many species eat bananas, including humans. Why only mention one group - and if anything the stereotype banana-eater is probably the chimpanzee rather than monkeys. This seems a very trivial item to insist on keeping, but if it must stay, surely it's not important enough to be in the opening paragraph? User:Jimfbleak 16:22, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC) == Bananas, spiders and myth == As a teacher of biology some years ago in a British port which imported and stored bananas, I was never short of specimens of insects and spiders (including tarantulas) brought to school for identification by the children of workers on the docksides and in the banana stores. Too common an occurrence to be considered all THAT newsworthy by the local daily newspaper. It had to be a pretty big spider to get a mention! Not a myth. Merely a fact. Michael Wood GRIMSBY, England. [...and SCAN -- the Society of Chiltern Antiquarians & Naturalists] == Bananas, potassium K-40, mutation, evolution legend == This has been moved here from so users know why it was removed. Original text in the ''legends'' section of the article was "The natural potassium in bananas is partly made up of a low level of the radioactive isotope K-40. One associated legend is that K-40 is responsible the mutation and evolution of chimps into humans." Obviously the above text can be improved to explain why it remains only a legend, the chimps statement etc, but it was deleted entirely- Chimps did not evolve into humans. They are both branches of a common tree. User:RickKUser talk:RickK 20:31, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC) :Then you entirely missed the point about it being in the ''legends'' section of the article, and clearly using the word ''legend'' in the statement. In future you may want to consider either changing information for clarity (add an extra statement saying it is not true, for readers that didn't notice it was in the ''legends'' section of the article), or alternatively, correcting it (for example by changing chimps to earlier hominid species etc.) rather than deleting it entirely. User:Caa 02:10, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) Sorry, you can't just say "legends", without mentioning where those legends are posted. WHO claims this? User:RickKUser talk:RickK 05:32, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC) :Then your editing would be inconsistent, as there is only one other source reference in the Legends section of the banana article, but you did not delete those others. Perhaps because you already know of those legends, in which case you would only be deleting the statement because you hadn't heard of it (and also that it was posted anonymously, I have since registered). :You could have answered your own question with a quick google for [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=k40+human+evolution&btnG=Search human evolution K-40] and [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mutations+k-40&btnG=Google+Search mutations K-40] and may have found articles such as [http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/k40.html] which includes the statement ''"the bulk of whole-body beta absorption is from K-40"'' and also proposes that there may be a window in which certain levels of K-40 cause the ideal mutation rate to produce intelligent life etc. Now combine this with the concept that a high vegetable diet can be measured by the levels of [http://www.sas.org/E-Bulletin/2003-06-20/feedback/body.html K-40 measured in people] (society for amateur scientists letters, scroll down to ''" A whole body counter can see it - I can tell about what proportion of someone's diet is veggies by the K-40 in their bodies."'' and also ''" All Ionizing radiation is harmful to some degree, but it has also been essential for evolution. What would life be like on this planet if the levels of Ionizing radiation had been much lower? Surely it has contributed to many of the successful mutations necessary to evolutionary diversity."'') though I don't have access to the equipment to repeat the vegetables in the diet experiment myself. That is where the legend comes from. It was later removed as "irrelevant", does anyone think the text should be improved then re-included as a legend? User:Caa 09:28, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) So it's MY responsibility to prove your edits are correct? No, it's YOUR responsibility to document your assertion. User:RickKUser talk:RickK 00:01, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC) :It is ''your'' responsibility to ensure that ''your'' edits are correct, but it appears you deleted the text based only on your ''assumption'' that the text was incorrect. :I already provided documented evidence above. However, must every assertion in the encyclopdia have a documented source? Even if it did, it would be unrealistic to do this for many ''Urban Legends'' sections of articles. :I am relativlely new to this but I recently read the article on Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes which states on the subject of Deleting useful content, "Clarify it instead of throwing it away." It also states that text should not be deleted without announcing (or justifiying if it is non-trivial). I also saw in Wikiquette that writers should Wikipedia:Writers_rules_of_engagement, so according to the rules I propose that the text be changed to - : \"The natural potassium in bananas is partly made up of a low level of the radioactive isotope K-40, which can cause a detectable increase (using a Geiger counter) in radiation from an average truck of bananas. However, this is normal and not harmful to humans as the concentration is low and the human body regulates the amount of potassium it retains.\" [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/167212_radiation01.html Source for banana truck] :The above text hopefully reflects NPOV enough for most to agree, as it has a different focus to the original text. Does anyone else think this should be added to the legends section of the article? User:Caa 04:30, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) The natural potassium in anything is made up of K-39, K-40, and K-41. It's unremarkable that bananas contain K-40. - User:Nunh-huh 04:42, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) : Thanks, I know this, it doesn't change the truth of the above text, would you like to suggest an improvement to the wording of the statement? Perhaps "The natural potassium in bananas, like all natural potassium, ..." ? User:Caa 04:49, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::No, I'd like to suggest that some true statements about bananas are too insignificant to merit mention in a well-written encyclopedia article about bananas. - User:Nunh-huh :::In my opinion, the news item ([http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/167212_radiation01.html as linked above]) about bananas triggering radiation detectors at security checkpoints and trucks of bananas doing a similar thing, is no less significant than the other urban legends (spiders, seratonin, hallucinogenic skins etc. ). In my opinion, it is a factually important property of bananas and should be included. Can you specifically say why it is ''too insignificant'' in relation to those other urban legends that are included? User:Caa 06:33, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::::It has precious little to do with bananas. Put it in an article on "things that set geiger counters off". Don't put it in "bananas", "cocoa", "porcelain", "granite", "Brazil nuts", "kitty litter" and "pottery": it's incidental trivia about those items, while it's a pertinent fact in "geiger counters". Use some judgement. - User:Nunh-huh 13:36, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) :::::The ''legend'' has as much to do with bananas as the other legends that are included, why not put the ''spiders'' legend in a separate article about "things that spiders hide in" and put the ''smoking skins'' legend in a separate article about "things that can be smoked"? As I previously asked above, can you specifically say why it is ''too insignificant'' in relation to those other urban legends that are included? Specifically, why you think it is ''incidental trivia'' in relation to those other Urban legends? Also, why do you think ''incidental trivia'' should not be included in an encyclopaedic article, even when it is in the ''Urban legends'' section of the article? (a place where one might expect to find ''incidental trivia''.) User:Caa 16:13, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::::::If you think anything else in the article is as insignificant, you should remove them as well. - User:Nunh-huh 06:20, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC) == 101.1% Nutrition == The nutritional composition of the banana adds up to 101.1%. I think some of the figures might be wrong! == Variety of Banana == I think we should make this topic more interesting by including variety of banana. For example [http://caffeinbar.com/b2evol/media/redbanana.jpg red banana]. Or the feet long Pisang tanduk (buffalo horn banana),etc. == Water content of bananas? == The article as it currently stands states that bananas have a "85 percent water content" (Properties), or are alternatively "74% water" (Nutritional value and dietary effects). Unless we're talking about two different species of bananas, or they suffer from extreme seasonal variation, one of these values is incorrect. I would be inclined to lean towards the value from the nutritional section, except as previously noted its values add to 101.1%. --User:Pjf User_talk:Pjf 11:22, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC) == Pesticides == An interesting aspect of the banana's succeptibility to disease is the use of large amounts of pesticides. Perhaps the article ought to mention this? I have heard that many growers actually tie sacks impregnated with toxins around the banana clusters and that the bananas grow inside these sacks. Also, I think bananas are sometimes treated with other toxins to prevent them from over ripening while in transit? == FAC? == What a great article - does anything think it needs much more before being nominated as a Wikipedia:featured article candidate? -- User:ALoan User_talk:ALoan 12:40, 20 May 2005 (UTC) :The article still claims two different figures for water content, and while this may depend upon seasonal or cultivar factors, it is something that requires explanation. Otherwise it's a mark against the article in the ''accurate'' Wikipedia:What_is_a_featured_article. :The article also seems a little short in its current form. There are many different types of bananas, and unfortunately the article doesn't cover them in detail, and featured articles should be comprehensive. I think the article in its current form definitely has potential, but isn't ready for nomination just yet. --User:Pjf User_talk:Pjf 01:27, 21 May 2005 (UTC) == Banana Seeds == I found a good article with a photo of "seed-packed fruit of Musa balbisiana, one of the ancestors of the edible bananas." Here's the link. http://www.apsnet.org/education/feature/banana/Top.html Here's the link to to photo. http://www.apsnet.org/education/feature/banana/Images/Figure4sm.jpg I was interested to see such a picture, however, I don't know whether it would violate copyright to put this photo in the article so I'm not trying. - User:Jimp 23May05 == when bananas go bad == what about saying that bananas take a really long time to go bad? they are closest to honey in that you can eat them long after they seem to have rotten. == I find the start of the article confusing/misleading == I find the start of this article a little confusing/misleading . It says "A banana is a tree-like plant", but then the majority of the article is about the banana fruit, and not the plant. Also, though I am no expert, I believe that all members of the Musaceae family are considered to be Banana Plants - So Ensete and Musella, as well as Musa. == leaves? == This article doesn't seem to say anything about the use of the banana leaf, and other parts of the tree? They highly used for those purposes as well, such as in...well, wrapping foods and being used to store food in them for a start. -- User:Natalinasmpf 20:49, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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"BANANA" is an acronym that stands for either "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything" or "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone". The term is used to criticise the ongoing opposition of certain interest groups to land development. The term criticises activists who apparently oppose every instance of proposed development, which may give the impression that the activist seeks to see no new growth. Compare with the much better known acronym NIMBY, which describes situations where development is protested by local groups who do not want the development in "their backyard". == See also == *Drawbridge mentality Acronyms Environment Urban studies and planning
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== Neologism? == There's a notable lack of references for this apparent neologism. Anyone got any? The POV-pushing tone could do with work too, courtesy said references - User:David Gerard 00:30, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) :I've seen it in ''The New York Times,'' although I don't have a link to a specific article handy. User:216.214.103.34 18:01, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::[http://www.wordspy.com/words/BANANA.asp Wordspy] lists the earliest known appearance of this phrase to The Sydney Morning Herald in January 1991. Additional googling indicates that it's in reasonably wide circulation. User:Feco 02:35, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Banana
:''For other meanings, see banana (disambiguation)'' Hybrid origin; see text A banana is a tree-like plant (though strictly an herb) of the genus ''Musa (Musaceae)'' in the family (biology) Musaceae, closely related to plantains. The term ''banana'' is also applied to the elongated fruit (technically a false berry), which grows (in edible species and varieties) in hanging clusters, several to many fruits to a tier (called a ''hand''), many tiers to a bunch. The total of hanging clusters is called a 'stem' in the commercial world. The banana was originally cultivated by pre-historic peoples in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. The flavour and texture of many kinds of bananas are affected by the temperature at which they ripen. Bananas are spoilt and turn grey at low temperatures and are only refrigerated down to 13.5 degrees Celsius during transportation. In 2002, over 68 million tonnes were harvested of which 12 million tonnes were traded worldwide, with Ecuador, Costa Rica, Colombia and the Philippines exporting over 1 million tonnes of bananas each. ==History== The banana is mentioned for the first time in history in Buddhist texts in 600 BC. Alexander the Great discovered the taste of the banana in the valleys of India in 327 BC. The existence of an organized banana plantation could be found in China back in the year 200 AD. In 650, Islamic conquerors brought the banana to Palestine (region). Arab merchants eventually spread bananas over much of Africa. In 1502, Portugal colonists started the first banana plantations in the Caribbean and in Central America. ==Properties== Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors. The ripe fruit is easily peeled and eaten raw or cooked. Depending upon variety and ripeness, the flesh can be starchy to sweet, and firm to mushy. Unripe or 'green' plantains and bananas are used in cooking and are the staple starch of some tropical populations. While the original bananas contained rather large seeds, seedless and polyploid varieties have been selected for human consumption. These are propagated asexual reproduction from offshoots of the plant. These offshoots are called followers or suckers in the trade, and one or two of them are the source for the next stem of fruit the plant produces, because the plant is normally cut down at the time of harvest. A stem of bananas can weigh from 30-50 kg, and they are usually carried on the shoulder. The commercial sweet varieties most commonly eaten in temperate countries (species ''Musa acuminata'' or the hybrid ''Musa x paradisiaca'', a cultigen) are imported in large quantities from the tropics, where they are popular in part because they are available fresh year-round. In global commerce, by far the most important of these banana cultivars is 'Cavendish', which accounts for the vast bulk of bananas exported outside of the tropics. Banana chips are a snack produced from bananas. Bananas have also been used in the making of jam. However unlike other fruits, bananas have only recently been used to prepare juice and squash_(drink)es. Despite an 85 % water content, it has historically been difficult to extract juice from the fruit because when compressed, a banana simply turns to pulp. In 2004, scientists at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India, patented a technique for extracting juice by treating banana pulp in a reaction vessel for four to six hours [http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1087416.htm]. In addition to the fruits, the flower of the banana plant (also known as ''banana blossom'' or ''banana heart'') is used in South-East Asian and Kerala (India) cooking, either served raw with dips or cooked in soups and curries. The tender core of the banana plant's trunk is also used, notably in Burma and Kerala (India) cooking. == Banana pests and diseases == Bananas are subject to many pests and diseases, which can reduce crop yields. The limited genetic diversity of cultivated bananas (which is due to their asexual reproduction) make them vulnerable to diseases such as Black Sigatoka, and new strains of Panama disease, caused by the fungus ''Fusarium''. Vegetative propagation (essential due to the lack of viable seeds in commercial bananas) has also resulted in the spread of virus disease across banana-growing areas on the world. Commercially important virus diseases of bananas include badnaviruses, which are responsible for banana streak disease. This disease is thought to arise from virus DNA integrated in the nuclear genome of Musa balbisiana, one of the wild species contributing to many of the banana cultivars currently grown. Banana streak disease can present a variety of symptoms, or may have little or no effect on infected banana plants if they are given plenty of fertilizer and well managed. Banana bunchy top virus is the most destructive banana virus in Asia, only has two effective methods of control - eradication of infected plants, and control of aphid vectors which spread the infection. In 2003 Belgium plant pathology Emile Frison of the International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain stated that the dominant commercial banana cultivar 'Cavendish' may become extinction within 10 years. The magazine ''New Scientist'' added, "We may see the extinction of the banana, currently a lifesaver for famine and poverty Africans and the most popular product on the world's supermarket shelves". The predecessor to 'Cavendish', the cultivar 'Gros Michel', had already suffered a similar fate. However, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization, 'Cavendish' bananas make up about 10% of the total world banana crop, with small-scale farmers continuing to grow numerous other varieties which retain far greater genetic diversity, but which do not enter significantly into world trade, being consumed locally. == Nutritional value and dietary effects == Bananas contain about 74% water, 23% carbohydrates, 1% proteins, 0.5% fat, and 2.6% dietary fiber (these values vary between different banana cultivars, degree of ripeness and growing conditions). In an unripe banana the carbohydrates are mostly starches. In the process of ripenening the starches are converted to sugars; a fully ripe banana has only 1-2% starch. Besides being a good source of energy, banana is a rich source of potassium, and hence is highly recommended for patients suffering from high blood pressure. It is claimed that bananas have beneficial effect in the treatment of intestinal disorders, including diarrhoea (diarrhea). Bananas are unusual in that they work for constipation too. They contain mucilaginous bulking substances and are easy to digest. Other fruit which may also be good for intestinal conditions include mangoes, figs, pineapple, and papaya. ==Banana trade== Bananas are among the most widely consumed fruits in the world. However, many banana farmers receive a low price for their produce. This has led to bananas being available as a 'fair trade' item in some countries. The banana has an extensive trade history beginning with the founding of the United Fruit Company at the end of the nineteenth century. For much of the 20th century, bananas and coffee dominated the export economies of Central America. In the 1930s, bananas and coffee made up as much as 75 percent of the region's exports. As late as 1960, the two crops accounted for 67 percent of the exports from the region. Though the two were grown in similar regions, they tended not to be distributed together. The United Fruit Company based its business almost entirely on the banana trade, as the coffee trade proved too difficult for them to control. The term "banana republic" has been broadly applied to the countries in the region, but from a strict economic perspective only Costa Rica, Honduras, and Panama were actual "banana republics" – countries with economies dominated by the banana trade. (Source of statistics: Skidmore, T., Smith, P., (2001) Modern Latin America (5th edition). New York: Oxford University Press) ==Attitudes toward bananas== Bananas are one of the most popular fruits among all peoples of all origins. Despite this, they are seen by some White supremacy as "monkey food", and have been used for racism insults, such as throwing bananas at sports players of African descent (e.g. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/world_football/2399629.stm]). In the video game Final Fantasy Legend II, bananas are banned in the world of Edo, the ninth world. Bananas are also humorously used as a phallic symbol (a metaphor for the human penis) due to similarities in size and shape. The depiction of a person slipping on a banana peel has been a staple of physical comedy for generations. A 1906 comedy record produced by Edison Records features a popular character of the time, "Cal Stewart" claiming to describe his own such incident, saying: :I don't think much of a man what throws a bananer peelin' on the sidewalk, and I don't think much of a bananer what throws a man on the sidewalk, neether. ... my foot hit that bananer peelin' and I went up in the air, and cum down ker-plunk, and fer about a minnit I seen all the stars what stronomy tells about, and some that haint been discovered yit. Wall jist as I wuz pickin' myself up a little boy cum runnin' cross the street and he sed 'Oh mister, won't you please do that agin, my mother didn't see you do it.' ==Urban legends== In the 1940s and 1950s, an urban legend involved tarantulas hidden among bunches of bananas. It should be noted that, while tarantulas do not hide in bananas, certain other large exotic spiders have been known to (see Brazilian wandering spider). These spiders are quite venomous and highly aggressive. It is also an urban legend that the dried skin of banana fruit is hallucinogenic when smoked. Unlike many urban legends, the origin of this one has been traced. It dates back to an article in the student newspaper ''Berkeley Barb'' in March 1967, which got the story from the singer Country Joe McDonald. This was brought to attention once more in the late 1980s, when the satiric punk group Dead Milkmen published an album concerning the effects of smoking banana peels. Even the FDA investigated. As with the spider legend, this legend is also not entirely without merit. The darkening of ripening bananas, proceeding from yellow, to brown, to black, is mainly due to large amounts of serotonin (an important human neurotransmitter), which is produced from tryptophan in banana peels. While this property would seem to implicate bananas as a natural antidepressant, such is not the case. Upon ingestion, serotonin is immediately broken down by enzymes in the stomach (particularly monoamine oxidase). Due to its high melting point (213° C), serotonin is unsuitable for smoking and decomposes into toxic gases (carbon and nitrogen oxides) during combustion. Additionally, it cannot cross the blood-brain barrier. ==Home remedy== The inner surface of a banana peel may be rubbed on a poison ivy to abate symptoms. ==See also== * The Banana Song * Banana republic - a pejorative term for describing a country with a corrupt, usually military dictatorship * Banana Republic - a chain of clothing stores owned by Gap Inc. * Bananas Foster - a dessert from New Orleans, Louisiana *Bananas (movie) - A film by Woody Allen *Plantain - a type of `woody' banana ==Reference== *FAO. [http://www.fao.org/es/esc/en/20953/20987/highlight_28367en.html Bananas Commodity notes: Final results of the 2003 season], 2004 == External links == * [http://www.inibap.org/ International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP)] * [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/banana.html Banana] by Julia Morton, ''Fruits of Warm Climates'', pp. 29–46. * [http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom/news/2003/13120-en.html Further details] from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. * [http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/banana.html Banana Fruit Facts] California Rare Fruit Growers Organization. Zingiberales fruit ms:Pisang simple:Banana
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What does this mean? -- ''We may see the extinction of the banana as both a lifesaver for hungry and impoverished Africans and as the most popular product on the world's supermarket shelves'' -- if it's extinct, how can it be popular? It will be popular because it becomes extinct? How can its extinction be a lifesaver for hungry and impoverished Africans? None of this makes sense. -- User:Zoe Look at the sentence in the article again, it says "currently" where you have "as", which changes the meaning. Maybe someone changed it since you saw it. Here is another place to read about the possible disappearence of bananas, if you are curious. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2664373.stm --User:Qaz :Yeah, it changed since I wrote the above, because I copied and pasted the sentence. -- User:Zoe re Zoe's comment: ROFL -User:Stevertigo hehe I read about the predicted extinction about a year ago in New Scientist, and I still don't get it. Firstly, why does someone think such disease is finally going to strike at this time? Secondly, why on earth (or indeed any planet) would it wipe out the African, Asian and Latin American crops all together? -- User:Smjg 11:04, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC) :If it kills enough, there will be inadequate genetic diversity to propagate indefinitely. Even a disease that kills only half of the crops could eventually cause the extinction of the entire breed. User:Kent Wang 22:27, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC) ::If something starts killing them in one area, couldn't someone clear the field, take measures to clear the area of the disease, and then replant them from elsewhere? -- User:Smjg 11:10, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC) ---- I've read somewhere that the banana tree is not a tree per se, but rather an herb. Any truth to this? User:Kent Wang 22:28, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC) == leet == as an avid banana fan i found this article to be just ''dandy''.User:Xmnemonic 21:28, 29 May 2004 (UTC) == Bananaphone == Something to lighten the mood... [http://www.filmbuffs.net/bananana/ Bananaphone] Enjoy :) : bananas are no laughing matter. User:Xmnemonic 20:10, 2004 Jun 27 (UTC) == Monkeys == As it seems to me, bananas ARE stereotypically eaten by monkeys (and apes, for that matter). Why delete that? User:Rhymeless 19:23, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC) : eye agree User:Xmnemonic 11:00, 2004 Jun 24 (UTC) ::I've put it back. Can someone show me a pic of a banana with a monkey ? User:Jay 12:05, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC) :::many species eat bananas, including humans. Why only mention one group - and if anything the stereotype banana-eater is probably the chimpanzee rather than monkeys. This seems a very trivial item to insist on keeping, but if it must stay, surely it's not important enough to be in the opening paragraph? User:Jimfbleak 16:22, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC) == Bananas, spiders and myth == As a teacher of biology some years ago in a British port which imported and stored bananas, I was never short of specimens of insects and spiders (including tarantulas) brought to school for identification by the children of workers on the docksides and in the banana stores. Too common an occurrence to be considered all THAT newsworthy by the local daily newspaper. It had to be a pretty big spider to get a mention! Not a myth. Merely a fact. Michael Wood GRIMSBY, England. [...and SCAN -- the Society of Chiltern Antiquarians & Naturalists] == Bananas, potassium K-40, mutation, evolution legend == This has been moved here from so users know why it was removed. Original text in the ''legends'' section of the article was "The natural potassium in bananas is partly made up of a low level of the radioactive isotope K-40. One associated legend is that K-40 is responsible the mutation and evolution of chimps into humans." Obviously the above text can be improved to explain why it remains only a legend, the chimps statement etc, but it was deleted entirely- Chimps did not evolve into humans. They are both branches of a common tree. User:RickKUser talk:RickK 20:31, Oct 21, 2004 (UTC) :Then you entirely missed the point about it being in the ''legends'' section of the article, and clearly using the word ''legend'' in the statement. In future you may want to consider either changing information for clarity (add an extra statement saying it is not true, for readers that didn't notice it was in the ''legends'' section of the article), or alternatively, correcting it (for example by changing chimps to earlier hominid species etc.) rather than deleting it entirely. User:Caa 02:10, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) Sorry, you can't just say "legends", without mentioning where those legends are posted. WHO claims this? User:RickKUser talk:RickK 05:32, Oct 22, 2004 (UTC) :Then your editing would be inconsistent, as there is only one other source reference in the Legends section of the banana article, but you did not delete those others. Perhaps because you already know of those legends, in which case you would only be deleting the statement because you hadn't heard of it (and also that it was posted anonymously, I have since registered). :You could have answered your own question with a quick google for [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=k40+human+evolution&btnG=Search human evolution K-40] and [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mutations+k-40&btnG=Google+Search mutations K-40] and may have found articles such as [http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/k40.html] which includes the statement ''"the bulk of whole-body beta absorption is from K-40"'' and also proposes that there may be a window in which certain levels of K-40 cause the ideal mutation rate to produce intelligent life etc. Now combine this with the concept that a high vegetable diet can be measured by the levels of [http://www.sas.org/E-Bulletin/2003-06-20/feedback/body.html K-40 measured in people] (society for amateur scientists letters, scroll down to ''" A whole body counter can see it - I can tell about what proportion of someone's diet is veggies by the K-40 in their bodies."'' and also ''" All Ionizing radiation is harmful to some degree, but it has also been essential for evolution. What would life be like on this planet if the levels of Ionizing radiation had been much lower? Surely it has contributed to many of the successful mutations necessary to evolutionary diversity."'') though I don't have access to the equipment to repeat the vegetables in the diet experiment myself. That is where the legend comes from. It was later removed as "irrelevant", does anyone think the text should be improved then re-included as a legend? User:Caa 09:28, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC) So it's MY responsibility to prove your edits are correct? No, it's YOUR responsibility to document your assertion. User:RickKUser talk:RickK 00:01, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC) :It is ''your'' responsibility to ensure that ''your'' edits are correct, but it appears you deleted the text based only on your ''assumption'' that the text was incorrect. :I already provided documented evidence above. However, must every assertion in the encyclopdia have a documented source? Even if it did, it would be unrealistic to do this for many ''Urban Legends'' sections of articles. :I am relativlely new to this but I recently read the article on Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes which states on the subject of Deleting useful content, "Clarify it instead of throwing it away." It also states that text should not be deleted without announcing (or justifiying if it is non-trivial). I also saw in Wikiquette that writers should Wikipedia:Writers_rules_of_engagement, so according to the rules I propose that the text be changed to - : \"The natural potassium in bananas is partly made up of a low level of the radioactive isotope K-40, which can cause a detectable increase (using a Geiger counter) in radiation from an average truck of bananas. However, this is normal and not harmful to humans as the concentration is low and the human body regulates the amount of potassium it retains.\" [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/167212_radiation01.html Source for banana truck] :The above text hopefully reflects NPOV enough for most to agree, as it has a different focus to the original text. Does anyone else think this should be added to the legends section of the article? User:Caa 04:30, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) The natural potassium in anything is made up of K-39, K-40, and K-41. It's unremarkable that bananas contain K-40. - User:Nunh-huh 04:42, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) : Thanks, I know this, it doesn't change the truth of the above text, would you like to suggest an improvement to the wording of the statement? Perhaps "The natural potassium in bananas, like all natural potassium, ..." ? User:Caa 04:49, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::No, I'd like to suggest that some true statements about bananas are too insignificant to merit mention in a well-written encyclopedia article about bananas. - User:Nunh-huh :::In my opinion, the news item ([http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/167212_radiation01.html as linked above]) about bananas triggering radiation detectors at security checkpoints and trucks of bananas doing a similar thing, is no less significant than the other urban legends (spiders, seratonin, hallucinogenic skins etc. ). In my opinion, it is a factually important property of bananas and should be included. Can you specifically say why it is ''too insignificant'' in relation to those other urban legends that are included? User:Caa 06:33, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::::It has precious little to do with bananas. Put it in an article on "things that set geiger counters off". Don't put it in "bananas", "cocoa", "porcelain", "granite", "Brazil nuts", "kitty litter" and "pottery": it's incidental trivia about those items, while it's a pertinent fact in "geiger counters". Use some judgement. - User:Nunh-huh 13:36, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) :::::The ''legend'' has as much to do with bananas as the other legends that are included, why not put the ''spiders'' legend in a separate article about "things that spiders hide in" and put the ''smoking skins'' legend in a separate article about "things that can be smoked"? As I previously asked above, can you specifically say why it is ''too insignificant'' in relation to those other urban legends that are included? Specifically, why you think it is ''incidental trivia'' in relation to those other Urban legends? Also, why do you think ''incidental trivia'' should not be included in an encyclopaedic article, even when it is in the ''Urban legends'' section of the article? (a place where one might expect to find ''incidental trivia''.) User:Caa 16:13, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::::::If you think anything else in the article is as insignificant, you should remove them as well. - User:Nunh-huh 06:20, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC) == 101.1% Nutrition == The nutritional composition of the banana adds up to 101.1%. I think some of the figures might be wrong! == Variety of Banana == I think we should make this topic more interesting by including variety of banana. For example [http://caffeinbar.com/b2evol/media/redbanana.jpg red banana]. Or the feet long Pisang tanduk (buffalo horn banana),etc. == Water content of bananas? == The article as it currently stands states that bananas have a "85 percent water content" (Properties), or are alternatively "74% water" (Nutritional value and dietary effects). Unless we're talking about two different species of bananas, or they suffer from extreme seasonal variation, one of these values is incorrect. I would be inclined to lean towards the value from the nutritional section, except as previously noted its values add to 101.1%. --User:Pjf User_talk:Pjf 11:22, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC) == Pesticides == An interesting aspect of the banana's succeptibility to disease is the use of large amounts of pesticides. Perhaps the article ought to mention this? I have heard that many growers actually tie sacks impregnated with toxins around the banana clusters and that the bananas grow inside these sacks. Also, I think bananas are sometimes treated with other toxins to prevent them from over ripening while in transit? == FAC? == What a great article - does anything think it needs much more before being nominated as a Wikipedia:featured article candidate? -- User:ALoan User_talk:ALoan 12:40, 20 May 2005 (UTC) :The article still claims two different figures for water content, and while this may depend upon seasonal or cultivar factors, it is something that requires explanation. Otherwise it's a mark against the article in the ''accurate'' Wikipedia:What_is_a_featured_article. :The article also seems a little short in its current form. There are many different types of bananas, and unfortunately the article doesn't cover them in detail, and featured articles should be comprehensive. I think the article in its current form definitely has potential, but isn't ready for nomination just yet. --User:Pjf User_talk:Pjf 01:27, 21 May 2005 (UTC) == Banana Seeds == I found a good article with a photo of "seed-packed fruit of Musa balbisiana, one of the ancestors of the edible bananas." Here's the link. http://www.apsnet.org/education/feature/banana/Top.html Here's the link to to photo. http://www.apsnet.org/education/feature/banana/Images/Figure4sm.jpg I was interested to see such a picture, however, I don't know whether it would violate copyright to put this photo in the article so I'm not trying. - User:Jimp 23May05 == when bananas go bad == what about saying that bananas take a really long time to go bad? they are closest to honey in that you can eat them long after they seem to have rotten. == I find the start of the article confusing/misleading == I find the start of this article a little confusing/misleading . It says "A banana is a tree-like plant", but then the majority of the article is about the banana fruit, and not the plant. Also, though I am no expert, I believe that all members of the Musaceae family are considered to be Banana Plants - So Ensete and Musella, as well as Musa. == leaves? == This article doesn't seem to say anything about the use of the banana leaf, and other parts of the tree? They highly used for those purposes as well, such as in...well, wrapping foods and being used to store food in them for a start. -- User:Natalinasmpf 20:49, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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