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Food Facts & Information : Do Bananas Have Seeds?

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Uploaded by on Dec 19, 2008

Bananas do not have seeds because they reproduce by planting the branch of a banana tree in the ground as opposed to planting seeds. Eat bananas as a source of vitamin B6, vitamin C and potassium. Learn more about bananas information from a cooking instructor in this free video on bananas.

Expert: Jan Boydstun
Contact: www.kitchenkitchen.com
Bio: Long time shop owner for kitchen gadgets and cooking instructor, Jan Boydstun, "Gadget Gal", is the utensil and cooking specialist for her shop Kitchen Kitchen.
Filmmaker: Gina Miller-Britton

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  • "we have really cool gadgets to slice your banana..."

    ...yeah...its called a knife...

  • This is ABSOLUTE MISINFORMATION! ... REAL, ORIGINAL, NON-HYBRID, WILD bananas DO have seeds! The seedless bananas we are accustom to are hybridized, therefore VERY high in SUGAR! Nature is self replicating through SEEDS!

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  • @realtraitor1 wisdom prevails. Thank you.

  • aaaaaahhhhhhhh WRONG!!! bananas do have seeds. get your facts straight woman

  • Forget the poisonous plastic "gadget" from China. Just use a knife!

  • This is a lie!! Natural wild bananas do have seeds..and big ones! This kind of bananas has been prepared over the century´s to grow without seeds. Eating bananas with seeds can be a little bit annoying...but more natural!

  • only fruits have seeds and a banana is not a fruit

  • @saintveil I could not get any to grow, I have gotten tomatoe seeds to grow and kiwi but I think the bananas are picked green and so the seeds are too immature to sprout, so next year I will buy a couple of plants. I visited the caribbean, beautiful place ,  nice people and I loved the food.

  • @shitzulovey - I agree that the dark center are the tiny seeds, which may or may not be viable due to genetic engineering. My grandparents from the Caribbean showed this like 30 years ago. I'll have to give it a try...

  • I need more than 500 words to truely explain this woman's ignorance, or to explain why bananas in stores don't have seeds. I'll explain without describing anything, so if confused, look word up. Seedless bananas, like seedless watermelons and grapes, are produced from crossing two banana plants with different ploidy levels. One parent is a diploid plant, and one is a tetraploid plant. Diploid pollen + haploid ovule = triploid egg = no seed production do to uneven chromosome number in mitosis.

  • Banana trees grow by "suckers", which are little plants that grow at the base of the "mother" plant. Yes they do have seeds which are very small and as far as I know non viable. This doesn't mean they are in danger of extinction either, (unless they encounter a disease they cannot adapt to) plants like salvia and peppermint produce non viable seeds.

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