Bananas: why you should never throw them all away
Some of these fruits that we Italians love are bananas, which are very useful for our health as a source of potassium and can often be used in any kind of recipe.
Native to tropical areas, it has been undermining the tables of our peninsula for many years and is almost never missing in homes to the point of having been painted also in some paintings depicting still lifes.
Often, due to its shape, it is associated with the male member and its name is used as a sexual allusion also following the song La Banana, which was very popular in the 2000s.
In the market we usually find yellow or green bananas depending on their ripeness, although it is always better, as experts advise, to consume those with a medium ripeness.
However, there are several types of bananas, including light blue bananas which, due to their ripeness, usually have a vanilla flavour but are almost impossible to find in Italy.
On the other hand, it has recently become possible to find red bananas in Italy that are much sweeter than normal bananas, although they cost about three times as much as normal bananas.
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