Lady Finger banana
Musa acuminata (AA, Sucrier group) · Tropical fruit
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The Lady Finger, widely sold as the sugar banana or baby banana, is a small, short and slim dessert banana with a thin, bright-yellow skin and sweet, creamy, faintly tangy flesh. It belongs to the Sucrier group of diploid (AA) Musa acuminata bananas — among them the Southeast Asian Pisang Mas — and is denser, sweeter and more delicately flavoured than the long export Cavendish, eaten out of hand as a snack.
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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