page_title: Banana chip
hierarchical_section_title: Banana chip
caption_attribution_description: English: Banana chip
context_page_description: Banana chips, with origins in Kerala, India are dried, generally crispy slices of bananas. They can be covered with sugar or honey and have a sweet taste, or are more commonly fried in oil and spices and have a salty or spicy taste.
  Banana chips are similar to chifle, usually made from firmer, starchier fruit varieties of the genus Musa commercially called plantains or "cooking bananas".
context_section_description: Banana chips (sometimes called banana crisps), with origins in Kerala, India are dried, generally crispy slices of bananas (fruits of herbaceous plants of the genus Musa of the soft, sweet "dessert banana" variety). They can be covered with sugar or honey and have a sweet taste, or are more commonly fried in oil and spices and have a salty or spicy taste. 
   Banana chips are similar to chifle, usually made from firmer, starchier fruit varieties of the genus Musa commercially called plantains or "cooking bananas".
caption: Dried banana chips
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