by Alec Muffett
when peeling a banana, i usually end-up with three bits:
can someone tell me please, what is the accepted name for this bit of a banana?
are you talking about the pseudostem? you do know that (technically) the banana is a berry, right?
http http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/article.php?article_id=847
I Google’d for http http://www.google.com/search?q=banana+peel+pulp+stalk
Ah, I’d read it was the phloem bundles; google for banana+peel+string.
Going to Cropready this year?
that’s the plan.
Steady on!
Since when did a berry have phloem bundles?
Come on now! You can do better than that!
Apparently, these bits are known as “fibrovascular bundles”.
Information courtesy of a Welshman, so please take it with a pinch of salt.
This is what I found using the information posted here already: “fibrovascular bundles”-a unit strand of the vascular system in stems and leaves of higher plants consisting essentially of xylem and phloem. To two of the answers were correct, although one was spelled wrong.
It’s the seed
I think the pholem bundles are the strings that you’ll get while peeling, that come from inside the skin of the banana. i think what the OP refers to is the “softer” strings that lie between the peel and the edible part.
I have wondered the same thing and I have asked a lot of people. The answer: is it is the distil pistil.
it has other names too, it’s called banana cardboard, and also the banana vitamin.
It has 70% of all the potassium of the banana, and a motherload of other nutrients. Some sources say it has only 40% of the potassium of the banana, either way it’s enough that it should be included in our diet.
hope this helps.
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