TYPES OF BANANAS IN INDIA

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TYPES OF BANANAS IN INDIA

Bananas in India – we all know that fruits are considered valuable and useful when it comes to vitamins as well as other essential nutritional values found enriched in mineral sources of food. However, the special fruit widely available in the country of India is bananas and its variants, which is why we are going to be discussing the types of bananas in India.

 

Types of Bananas in India

 Ice Cream Banana Tree:

How does this sound? To me, it sounds yummy and great, this banana has another name called blue java. This special banana found in India appears to be a green-colored fruit with white content inside considered snowy in texture. Let’s get a deeper insight into this special fruit;

  • Scientific Name: Balbisiana ‘Blue Java’
  • Color: Light blue to the dark blue outer skin
  • Place of origin: Hawaii, Central America, and Southeast Asia
  • Size: 18 to 23 cm
  • Use: For making desserts, salads
  • Production: Throughout the year

Cavendish Banana:

This is another type of banana made widely available in all supermarkets and shops across India, however, the Cavendish Banana appears to be a quite bulky and fat produced in larger quantities. This banana for its popularity earned the name common banana.

  • Scientific Name: Musa acuminata Cavendish subgroup
  • Color: Green to Yellow
  • Place of Origin: Philippines
  • Size:15 to25 cm
  • Use: For making desserts, ice cream, smoothies
  • Production: Throughout the year

Manzano Banana:

The Manzano Banana also is known as the Apple banana without seed. Meanwhile, this fruit is known to be developed from the female flower of the plant. Getting to know more about this fruit, this fruit is noted to be grown is lesser quantities which hereby makes the fruit cultivable at the backyard of a house for small family consumption alone.

  • Scientific Name: Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana
  • Color: Pale yellow skin
  • Place of Origin: Philippines
  • Size:4 inch
  • Use: For making desserts, ice cream, smoothies
  • Production: Summer

Dwarf Cavendish Banana:

As rightly stated by the name of this special fruit, this banana appears to be small in height ranging from the length of 13 to 14 cm. this fruit can as well be grown at home as long as there is a provision for a good irrigation system.

  • Scientific Name: Musa acuminata Cavendish subgroup
  • Color: Thick Green to Yellow skin and tapering tip
  • Place of origin: Canary Islands
  • Size: 15 to25 cm
  • Use: For making desserts, ice cream, smoothies
  • Production: Throughout the year

Dwarf Plantain:

This is an entirely different type of Banana in India from the previously discussed one. This plantain is also known as the Puerto Rican Plantain banana, being green in color raw banana. However, this plantain yields lots of raw plantains easily which makes it unique.

 

Scientific Name: Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana

Color: Thick Green and tapering tip

Place of Origin: Southeast Asia, South Asia, West Africa

Size: 3 to 10 inches

Use: For cooking

Production: Throughout the year

Gros Michel:

This is a type of Banana known as Big Mike possessing the qualities of exporting due to its thick outer skin which makes it resist any transportation damage.

  • Scientific Name: Musa acuminata (AAA group)
  • Color: Thick Green and tapering tip
  • Place of Origin: Jamaica
  • Size: 3 to 10 inches
  • Use: For eating, making deserts
  • Production: Throughout the year

Red Banana:

The Red Banana appears to be a famous variety of banana in India having reddish to the purple-colored outer skin. This fruit is quite thick and plump, and when this banana is now ripened and ready to eat, the flesh looks more like a creamy to pinkish color which aids its sweetness but a tint of sour taste is added to it.

  • Scientific Name: Musa acuminata (AAA group)
  • Color: Red outer skin
  • Place of Origin: Southeast Asia
  • Size: 18 cm
  • Use: For eating, making deserts
  • Production: Three to four months a year

Nendran:

This type of banana is majorly found in Kerala state in India famously called the Changalikodan, which appears to be a variety that is cultivated in a village in India.

  • Scientific Name: Musa acuminata (AAA group)
  • Color: Yellow outer skin
  • Place of origin: Kerala, India
  • Size: 25 cm
  • Use: For eating, making deserts
  • Production: Planting is done in October month

Grand Naine Banana:

This is another type of banana in India known as the Chiquita Banana, this fruit is known to belong to the Cavendish family as it is included in the AAA genotype fruits whereby it is seedless.

Scientific Name: Musa acuminata (AAA group)

Color: Yellow outer skin

Place of Origin: India, Africa, Central America, and Southeast Asia.

Size: 25 cm

Use: For eating, making deserts

Production: Throughout the year

Robusta Banana:

Robusta Banana is considered one of the most important and widely sold commercial banana types in India. However, this variety of fruits is noted to be medium in length as it measures about 15 to 20 cm which makes it more prone to damage at a heavy windy situation.

Scientific Name: Musa acuminata (AAA group)

Color: Green

Place of Origin: TamilNadu, India.

Size: 25 cm

Use: For eating, making deserts

Production: Throughout the year

Conclusion On Types Of Bananas In India

There you have the list of bananas you could get in India, you want some bananas around the house, get one of these.