Saturday, June 11, 2011

10 Facts About Bananas

Banana is a popular fruit that has many secrets yet unknown. Here are some strange facts about the strange and delicious fruit.

The discovery is banana man

Banana as we know it is a human invention of the year 5000 BC Because the people in those days was very picky in choosing foods and they do not like beans. So, they create hybrid plants until they managed to make seedless fruit. Although there is still a small seed in a banana, but they do not care. Add the banana is so strange at that time.
Actually, Not Trees Banana Trees

It's true! The tree was actually only herbal disguised as a tree. A great herb. Trying to be a coconut tree.
Banana Tree Fruitful Just Once, Then Dead

Banana tree or a herb grown only one bunch of bananas and then die. Fortunately, the tree creates new shoots (baby plants) before finally dying. This cycle lasted for ten years, and then the specific organism dies. That is a picture of a banana flower. It can be eaten too lho!
Banana Own Risk Extinction

Due to the above two explanations (herbal fruit seedless man-made), plus the kind of plantation agriculture (the lack of genetic variety = weakness) the super popular Cavendish banana is always risky. One risk is an aggressive pest or disease, and bananas will be extinct. In fact, the Cavendish banana we eat today is very high risk of extinction is a replacement for the Gros Michel banana which is identical to the way the dodo bird in the 1960's.
Bananas Is Anti Hangover

Bananas are a hangover is outstanding! Therefore, Coke (soda, cola drinks), they are rich in potassium. Eat one before bed or after wake up (and going back to bed).
Damn If You Could Take Over Banana Boat

This superstitious sailors. Some ships even Banana Boat Banana Republic or there are signs ban on carrying bananas. Nobody really knows the exact reason. Some say that because the ship carrying bananas to go fast so that the fruit is not damaged, and as a result they can not be fishing. Some say that the fruit it produces methane gas that can kill the sailors. These different opinion makes me wonder, how discoveries happen Banana Boat?
You Keep Using Nuclear Science To Extract Juice from Banana

It is difficult to extract juice from bananas, despite the banana has 80% water. Have you ever tried to squeeze a banana? molecular structure of the banana is not very easily influenced. Banana juice are available at this time are banana blend, do not squeeze the banana. What is clear cheating. But for some reason, Indian atomic scientists are trying to find a way to extract juice from bananas. Yes, an atomic scientist. From Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Just imagine.
Could Banana Used As Weapons

In Monrovia, Maryland, a man robbed the store with a banana. The thief took a banana from the table and began hitting the officer, who issued a knife. The man with the banana without the benefit of the crime, except bananas, which damaged at the time. And in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a man hiding bananas under his shirt and pretended it was a gun when he tried to rob the store. He was caught by the owner of the store and secure the evidence while waiting for police. Strangely, he was accused of trying to do the crime robbery with a dangerous weapon. Not a very effective weapon, but weapons are nutritious.
Bananas Is Important Staple Food

Not surprisingly to be the most popular fruit, but ranked fourth as a staple food, it is very surprising (after wheat, rice, and corn). In some poor areas on the planet, bananas eaten for 70% of food consumption.
India Is World's Biggest Banana Producing Followed Brazil

In these countries, although Cavendish is still the king, there are many varieties of bananas. In Brazil, in any one market we can find at least half a dozen kinds of bananas: banana baby, Plantae banana, banana, violet, banana, apple, banana, silver, and so on.

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