Tag: Banana cultivation

Wild bananas are filled with large, hard seeds and contain very little edible fruit, a stark contrast to the seedless fruit found in grocery stores today. The bananas we enjoy are the result of thousands of years of human cultivation, breeding, and genetic selection.

A single banana plant can yield a cluster of fruit with up to 200 individual bananas, or 'fingers,' on a commercial plantation. The answer to how many bananas are in one bunch is far more complex than it appears, often depending on whether you're referring to the entire agricultural stalk or the small retail cluster.