Re: Organic Banana Variety in Supermarkets?
They are the standard Cavendish varieties. There is a good discussion of the pros and cons of "conventional" versus "organic" farming methods for these bananas in "Banana: the fate of the fruit that changed the world" by Dan Koeppel. My summary is that the "organic" bananas at our supermarkets are not necessarily better for you and are probably worse for the environment where they are grown. That's because rather than combating the standard banana diseases with fungicides, the big companies that put bananas in our supermarkets just destroy more rainforest to create a new disease-free field.
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