Bananas are the most heavily consumed fruit worldwide and especially in the US. While that may not surprise you, there are quite a few things that will. In this episode, we peel back the layers to reveal the secrets of the common supermarket banana.

Credits:

The book A History of Food by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat

Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington

The Cargo Handbook website

Popular Science and National Geographic magazines

Numerous Wikipedia editors

Music from https://filmmusic.io: "Memory" by Luca Fraula 

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