Banana Facts

Smelling bananas and green apples may help reduce appetite and food cravings, according to research on how scents affect hunger signals.

While wild banana varieties can reproduce through seeds, the common cultivated banana plant primarily reproduces asexually through suckers or rhizomes. For large-scale production, human intervention is essential to propagate these plants, as they rarely produce viable seeds.

The banana plant is technically a giant herb, not a tree, making bananas the world's largest herb berry.

A Citroën 2CV crossing the Atacama desert in Chile lost all its engine oil in 1959. The crew filled the crankcase with mashed bananas and drove 300 kilometers to safety.

A single banana is called a finger and a bunch of bananas is called a hand.

A strawberry is not a berry, but a banana is.

Drinking a banana milkshake can help ease hangover symptoms by replenishing potassium, providing natural sugars for energy, and coating the stomach.

If you place a ripe banana next to a green tomato, the tomato will ripen due to the ethylene gas produced by the banana.

The bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile; natural bananas are short, fat, and have huge seeds.