Burro banana
Musa × paradisiaca (Bluggoe subgroup, ABB) · Tropical fruit
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The Burro banana — also sold as Chunky, Horse or Orinoco-type banana — is a short, stubby, distinctly squared-off banana of the Bluggoe (ABB) cooking-banana subgroup. When fully ripe it is yellow with black flecks, soft and creamy, and carries a bright lemon-tinged tang on top of the usual banana sweetness that sets it apart from a plain Cavendish.
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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