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• Each stalk can contain up to 150 individual bananas, weighing up to a hundred pounds. 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. Continued next page

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• 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.

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