Blue Java banana
Musa acuminata × balbisiana (ABB group) · Tropical fruit
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The Blue Java — widely nicknamed the "ice cream banana" — is a hardy dessert banana famous for its silvery, blue-green unripe peel and its soft, creamy flesh said to taste of vanilla custard. A triploid ABB-group hybrid of Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, it is sweeter, fluffier and more cold-tolerant than the common Cavendish, prized by home growers in subtropical regions where most dessert bananas struggle.
Picking a good onedrag
UnderripeOverripe
All yellowBuy itSweet but still firm, so it slices cleanly over cereal or eats well out of hand.
SkinEven yellow, green tips gone
FleshFirm with a little spring
StemCrown drying, fingers tight
SmellLight, clean banana
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What you get from one
64%
Edible part
118 g · peel off
184 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
Chilled green fruit greys and never ripens. Ripe fruit keeps 5–7 days chilled; the peel blackens.
90-95%
Humidity
Open air, unbagged
Airflow