Every blossom grows into a single banana. Each bunch of bananas is made of about 25 hands. Each hand contains 10 to 12 individual bananas or fingers. The entire bouquet produces a stem of about 250 to 300 bananas. Unlike most other fruit, they are best when harvested green and allowed to ripen in the supermarket or at home.
Bananas are the perfect snack food.
They are low in sodium and fat and rich in potassium and contain small amounts of other necessary vitamins and minerals. Depending on when and how you plan to use them, bananas can be purchased green, yellow with green tips or yellow with tiny brown spots. If bananas need further ripening, keep them out at room temperature a few days. For speedy ripening, enclose in perforated brown paper bag. To store bananas for a longer time, keep them in the refrigerator.