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What color is the skin of a standard unripe banana before it matures?
Answer: Green
Why: Yellow carotenoids sit in the peel all along; ripening destroys the green chlorophyll that masks them, while starch turns to sugar.
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What botanical term describes the trunk-like stalk of a banana plant formed from leaves?
Answer: Pseudostem
Why: A banana pseudostem is 92 to 95 percent water and stays upright by cell pressure, not lignin: a giant herb, not a tree.
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Which clone is the most widely grown Cavendish banana?
Answer: Grande Naine
Why: Grande Naine took over commercial plantations in the 1970s because its shorter pseudostem resisted wind.
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Why have many modern zoos banned feeding cultivated bananas to monkeys?
Answer: Too high in sugar
Why: Most people think bananas are a monkey's natural diet, but commercial fruit has been bred so sweet that it causes tooth decay and diabetes in primates.
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What plant parts tightly overlap to form the trunk of a banana plant?
Answer: Leaf sheaths
Why: No wood anywhere: water pressure inside the packed leaf sheaths keeps the column stiff enough to carry a fruit bunch of 50 kg or more.
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Which plant fiber from a banana species is called Manila hemp?
Answer: Abacá
Why: Abacá fibers resist damage from salt water, making them a premier choice for ship rigging and marine ropes.
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