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Banana
Bananas grow on giant herbs, not trees, and botanically they're berries. Most bananas we eat are clones of one variety.
⚡ Carbohydrates🌾 Fibre🍊 Vitamin C
How it grows
In hanging bunches on a plant that grows to full height in under a year.
Where it came from
South-East Asia.
🚚 From field to plate
- 1. Planted
- 2. Bunches grow
- 3. Harvested green
- 4. Shipped cool
- 5. Ripened
- 6. Shop
- 7. Your lunchbox
🤓 Fun facts
- Bananas are berries; strawberries aren't.
- Almost every banana in shops is the same clone variety.
- Bananas float in water.