Red banana
Musa acuminata (Red Dacca) · Tropical fruit
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The red banana, widely sold as Red Dacca, is a stocky dessert banana wrapped in a thick, deep red-to-maroon skin that deepens to purplish as it ripens. Inside, the soft cream-to-pink flesh is sweeter and more aromatic than a Cavendish, carrying a distinct raspberry-like note over the usual banana flavour. It is shorter, plumper and softer than the long yellow export banana, and a member of the AAA dessert group.
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