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Old 01-29-2016, 10:15 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Default Re: What banana cultivar is on vitin6039 avatar?

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Originally Posted by merce3 View Post
Very cool! How do they taste?
What little pulp is in the fruit (it's mostly seed) tasted a little sour with almost no sweetness and left a distinctive but not alarming slight burning/scratching feeling in the back of my throat for a short time afterwards. A really neat plant, but I'd hardly consider the fruit even in the ranks of famine food. Perhaps if the pulp was fermented away from the seeds and cooked a little it could pass as palatable if that's all you had.
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