Praying Hands banana
Musa × paradisiaca (ABB, Praying Hands) · Tropical fruit
Top 10 pairings
The Praying Hands is an unusual cooking-and-dessert banana named for the way two adjacent hands of fruit grow fused together, their flat-sided fingers pressed back to back so the bunch looks like two hands clasped in prayer. It is a robust ABB-type clone with a thick skin and firm, faintly vanilla-scented flesh that is eaten ripe out of hand or cooked while still starchy.
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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