Others think it may have been a fig or a pomegranate. Carl Linnaeus , an 18th century Swedish botanist who was the first person to successfully grow a fully flowered banana tree in the Netherlands, theorized that bananas grow at the right height for someone to longingly reach out and grab it. Also backing up his argument?
Banana leaves, larger than fig leaves, might work better to cover nakedness. Linnaeus took his penchant for bananas further by speculating other uses for the versatile banana. For example, the botanist recommended boiling bananas with sugar to cure anger, mashing bananas with honey to soothe eye inflammation and crushing banana root soaked in milk to alleviate dizziness.
Despite their popularity, there is debate among nutritionists about the actual health value of the banana. Many nutritionists argue the problem with carbs is that they turn to sugar once they reach the blood stream, spiking your blood sugar levels, leaving you vulnerable to cravings and eventual weight gain, which is why some nutritionists would recommend snacking on other fruits.
Still, medical research which is oft disproved; see: coffee has shown that eating bananas may lower the risk of heart attacks and strokes, as well as decrease the risk of getting some cancers. Also, in face of a common belief, bananas are relatively low in potassium compared to other foods, such as beans, milk, apricots, carrots, bell peppers and sweet potatoes. Carey Reed assists in covering breaking and feature news for NewsHour Weekend's website. She also helps the NewsHour Weekend broadcast team in the production of the show.
Support Provided By: Learn more. Friday, Nov The Latest. World Agents for Change. Health Long-Term Care. For Teachers. NewsHour Shop. The definition of a vegetable is a little fuzzier: any edible part of a plant that isn't a fruit. Strawberries and raspberries aren't really berries in the botanical sense. They are derived from a single flower with more than one ovary, making them an aggregate fruit. True berries are simple fruits stemming from one flower with one ovary and typically have several seeds.
Tomatoes fall into this group, as do pomegranates, kiwis and—believe it or not—bananas. Their seeds are so tiny it's easy to forget they're there. One might think that owing to their superficial similarities to stonefruits, avocados might be classified as drupes.
But no, they're actually considered a berry, too—with one, giant seed. When fruits form without pollination, it is considered an example of parthenocarpy. Other fruits like apples, mangoes, cherries and peaches require pollination to lead to fruit creation.
According to the California Rare Fruit Growers website, the banana plants inflorescence elongates to then reveal sterile flowers with both useless male and female flower organs and finally flowers that are entirely male. Banana fruits do not form in either of these areas on the inflorescence and simply shrivel-up and fall away.
The banana fruit results from the swelling of each female flower's ovary wall. This makes a banana officially a berry. The ovary of a banana flower is located below the point of attachment of the flower petals, making it an "inferior ovary" in position. Because the lower stem base of the flower the receptacle houses the inferior ovary, they mutually swell to become the fruit. Officially a banana is regarded as an accessory berry according to authors of the textbook "Economic Botany: Plants in Our World.
Banana fruits are soft, fleshy and full of liquid tissues and are regarded as "fleshy fruits.
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