venturabananas

There is a biological difference between bananas that are generally called "cooking bananas" and those that are generally called "dessert bananas": cooking bananas have a higher starch content. If you let them get ripe enough, much of the starch in cooking bananas will break down into simpler sugars and then they taste more like dessert bananas. But Gabe's point is important: how you choose to eat a banana is largely cultural. But starch content does affect how a banana will cook up. However, where you draw the line between cooking bananas and dessert bananas is arbitrary. For example, some cultures view Pisang Awak bananas as mainly being cooking bananas, and other cultures treat them as mainly dessert bananas.

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