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by Janet Spencer Bananas are the top selling fruit in the U.S. Americans eat more bananas each year than apples and oranges combined. Come along with Tidbits as we discover why!

BANANA FACTS • The Arabic word ‘banan’ means ‘finger’ and that’s where we get the word ‘banana.’

• Bananas were cultivated as early as 1000 B.C., originating in the tropical rain forests of Southeastern Asia. They spread to tropical regions all over the world, as sailors planted cuttings everywhere in order to assure a steady food supply while on long voyages.

• A banana tree is actually the world’s largest herb, in the same family as lilies, orchids and palms. The fruit is classified as a giant berry. A banana tree can grow thirty feet (9 m) tall, making it the largest known plant that doesn’t have a woody trunk. Because of this, it’s susceptible to wind damage. Many of the world’s largest banana-producing areas are located in hurricane country.

• When a mature banana tree is cut down or blown over, new shoots sprout from around the parent stalk. It takes only about 18 months of continuously warm sunny weather for a banana plant to grow from a shoot to a mature plant bearing fruit. The banana plant is perennial, meaning it will grow year after year from the same roots.

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BANANA FACTS • Each stalk can contain up to 150 individual bananas, weighing up to a hundred pounds (45 kg). A typical banana plant can yield about three or four harvests over the course of its lifespan. After that, it is cut down and left to turn into soil in order to support the shoot that re-grows from the original stem.

• Modern bananas are unable to reproduce on their own and must have human assistance. They do not have seeds, and are spread only by cloning. Banana plants are propagated by transplanting suckers and corms that grow off the mother plant’s roots. Therefore, every modern commercial banana plant is a genetic clone.

• Because every banana is identical, they are all susceptible to the same diseases. One popular strain of banana is now nearly extinct due to a fungus, and the same incurable banana disease continues to spread from one banana plantation to the next, threatening the world supply of bananas.

• India grows about 20% of the world’s bananas, but exports very few of them because bananas grown in India are eaten in India. Other countries such as Ecuador export nearly 100% of their banana crop.

IT’S A FACT • Bananas are cut while green because they keep longer and ship better while green. They begin to ripen as soon as they are picked, because chlorophyll starts breaking down, turning the fruit from green to yellow, just as green leaves turn yellow in the fall.

BANANA FACTS • 32% of a banana is the peel. Of the fruit, 75% is water, 21% sugar, and only 4% is protein, fiber, and starch.

There are about 110 calories in one medium banana.

• Chiquita was clearing jungle land to make room for more banana plantations when they accidentally discovered ancient Mayan ruins.

A BANANA a DAY… • A banana has four times as much protein as an apple, plus twice the carbohydrates, three times the phosphorus, and five times the vitamin A and iron. Bananas are high in potassium, vitamin C, and dietary fiber.

It’s the only fruit that contains the amino acid tryptophan, which is also found in turkey and tends to make people sleepy. It’s one of the few fruits that contain vitamin B6. Bananas have little fat and no cholesterol.

BANANA LOVE • Americans eat almost 30 lbs. (13.5 kg) of bananas per person per year, averaging about 1.5 bananas per week. That’s nine pounds more than the annual consumption of apples, which are the second most popular fruit.

• Over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once each month.

• About 60% of the world’s production of bananas is consumed in the U.S. • Except for a small crop from Hawaii, the entire American supply of bananas is imported, nearly all coming from countries in the Caribbean. A typical banana travels 4,000 miles (6,437 km) before being eaten.

BANANA HISTORY • Bananas were first imported to the U.S. in 1804 when a ship brought 30 stalks to New York from Cuba.

They were introduced to the public at the Philadelphia Centennial Expo in 1876 and sold for 10 cents each, equal to $10 today. A guard posted next to a living banana plant prevented people from breaking bits off as souvenirs.

• Within just 20 short years at the end of the 1800s, bananas went from being a novelty item to surpassing apples as America’s best selling fruit, in spite of the fact that bananas rot easily and must be shipped thousands of miles, whereas apples grow very near most of the cities in the U.S. • One reason for the banana’s skyrocketing popularity is that they are available year-round because they are harvested constantly. Nearly all other fruits are seasonal.

• By the early 1900s, the banana business was booming in Caribbean countries. However, there were problems. Although bananas and coffee often accounted for 80% of the exports, the economic benefits were limited to members of the governments and the corporate owners. Little revenue went to the country where the fruit was grown. Furthermore, workers spent their wages in company stores, whose supplies were imported rather than being purchased locally.

• In 1905, writer O. Henry authored a book called “Cabbages and Kings” which takes place in a mythical country in Central America called Anchuria. In the book, he coined the term ‘banana republic.’ During the 1930s, this term became common, denoting unstable countries whose economy is dependent upon a single resource which is controlled by plutocrats.

• During World War I, many ships belonging to fruit companies which had been used to haul bananas were conscripted by the Navy for use in the war instead. The banana trade was strangled because there was no way to get bananas to market. The popularity of the fruit rebounded after the war ended, but the same thing happened during World War II when banana boats were once again conscripted for military use.

• The song “Yes We Have No Bananas” was written in 1923 in response to frequent banana shortages caused by blight, hurricanes, and wars.

• The invention of steamships, railroads, interstate highways, and refrigeration all spurred the popularity of bananas because they made it possible to get the fruit to market before it spoiled.

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SCIENCE BY SERENDIPITY • Charles Kettering was researching improvements in the gasoline engine in 1912 when the automobile industry was just beginning to grow. He was trying to eliminate the “knock” in the engine, caused when gas takes too long to burn in the cylinder, reducing efficiency. How could he get the gas to burn earlier? He started thinking of things that happen early. He thought of the trailing arbutus, a plant which blooms early. It has red leaves.

Kettering thought the red color made the arbutus bloom early. He figured if gas was red, maybe it too would be affected and would burn early. Red dye was what he needed, but he didn’t have any red dye. However, he did have iodine. He poured iodine in the gas. The knocking stopped. The following week, he poured red dye in the gas. The knocking started again. He decided it wasn’t the red color— it was substances in the iodine. He had made the first important strides in developing the no-knock engine.

• In 1903 French chemist Benedictus was working in his lab when he accidentally knocked a glass flask to the floor. He heard it shatter, but when he examined it he found all the glass fragments had hung together. Questioning his assistant, he discovered the flask had once held a solution of cellulose nitrate, which is a liquid plastic. The solution had evaporated, and the assistant, thinking the flask was clean enough, had not washed it out before returning it to the laboratory shelf. Only a few days later, Benedictus read an article in a Paris newspaper that mentioned a recent rash of automobile accidents. The article said most of the drivers had been seriously injured by shattered glass. Remembering the broken flask, Benedictus rushed to his lab, and within the next 24 hours had invented safety glass.

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Because of this -- and because the regulations were finalized in September 2015 -- we are seeing a lot more pet products being recalled.

For pet owners, this sudden increase is certainly alarming. However, it’s also an indication that some of the new regulations are beginning to work. Companies are complying with the recall mandate, and hopefully the same companies also are working to improve their pet-food products so that they are safe to eat.

As a pet owner, you can help keep the new FDA regulations moving forward. Go to www.FDA.gov and search for “pet food.” There you’ll find detailed instructions on filing a complaint about a pet food, along with information about the latest recalls.

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Amazing Animals FLIES • There are over 87,000 species of flies in the world. Dragonflies, mayflies, fireflies, and butterflies are not flies. Gnats, mosquitoes, and midges are flies. • Flies have hearts.

• The feet of a fly exude a sticky substance which helps it walk on slick surfaces and upside-down. The sticky feet also pick up germs, which is why flies spread so much disease. The average fly carries between one and six million bacteria.

• The housefly is quite close to being the average size animal for the entire animal kingdom, exactly midway between the one-celled protozoa and the blue whale.

• Flies are loners. They may feed and breed at the same carrion, but there is never any social interaction between them.

• Male flies have been observed waiting patiently next to the pupa of female flies, waiting for mates to hatch.

• When an adult hatches out from the pupa, it has achieved its final form. Small flies do not grow into large flies.

• Utah’s Great Salt Lake is famous for its outbreaks of brine flies, sometimes numbering 370 million per mile of shoreline.

• One kind of fly lives both underwater and above water near seaweed beds. However, this fly has a strange fixation on the smell of dry cleaning fluids and will frequently congregate at cleaning establishments in such numbers that they become a nuisance.

• The mouthparts of a horsefly are strong enough to pierce leather.

• William Buckland, British geologist, was known to sample every living thing he came across. He once declared that the mole was the nastiest thing he ever tasted, but later passed the award to blue bottle flies.

• One kind of fly lays its eggs on the bodies of caterpillars. The caterpillars are sometimes able to bite the eggs off, so the fly has learned to wait until the caterpillar lifts it foot off the ground. Then in a flash the fly moves in and deposits the eggs on the bottom of the caterpillar’s foot, where they cannot be reached.

• The fairy fly is the smallest insect at 1/100th inch. It can crawl through the eye of a small needle.

• In a cave called Waitomo Cavern in New Zealand there lives a fly that’s about twice as big as a mosquito. Its scientific name is Arachnocampa luminosa. It clings to the roof of the cave over an underground river and trails in the air a series of sticky threads of mucus four or five feet long. Under its tail is a lightemitting organ which lights up the shimmering mucus strands. Any insects in the cave are attracted to the light. They stick to the thread and are hauled in and eaten by the fly. With several thousand flies all lighting up their shimmering threads, the sight is eerie and unforgettable.

• Ancient Roman poet Virgil once held a grand funeral for a dead fly, including pallbearers and eulogies. Land used as a cemetery was exempt from taxes, so by burying a dead fly on his property, Virgil was able to make it tax-exempt.

• Renaissance painter Giotto was studying under Giovanni Cimabue when he secretly painted a fly on the nose of a figure in one of Cimabue’s paintings. So realistic was the fly that when Cimabue returned to complete the picture, he tried repeatedly to brush the fly away. Only then did he realize he was a victim of Giotto’s practical joke.

• Scientists have been completely unable to train a fly to press a lever in order to receive the reward of food.

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SERENDIPITOUS SCIENCE (cont’d) • After French inventor Benedictus developed safety glass, he was dismayed to find automobile manufacturers uninterested in the development because they felt auto safety was the responsibility of the driver, not the manufacturer. Not until World War I brought the need for shatter-proof safety goggles did Benedictus’ invention catch on.

• Robert Fergusson ran away from his home in Scotland at the age of 12, and went to seek adventure on the sea. His duties included swabbing and re-painting the rusty metal deck, always a tedious and time-consuming chore. • One day he lunged for an open container of raw fish oil trying to catch it before it spilled, but failed. It spread all over the deck. In the days following the spill, he noticed that the rust that had been relentlessly creeping across the deck stopped where the fish oil had spilled. He remembered this fact throughout his long career as a sea captain.

• After settling in New Orleans, he frequently experimented with fish oil-based paints.

The problem was that they smelled terrible and took forever to dry. When Fergusson was 42 years old, he was put in charge of a fleet of ships during World War I. Taking the opportunity to do further experiments with fish oil, he finally hit on a formula that smelled better, dried fast, and stopped rust overnight.

• After the war, he founded a paint company in 1921, which did quite well. The company’s name is Rust-Oleum. Today it’s a worldwide leader in protective paints and coatings for both home and industry, and still offers the famous rust-fighting formula that started it all back in 1921. The company’s motto, ‘Rust Never Sleeps,’ was borrowed by singer Neil Young as the name of his 1979 album.

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