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Originally Posted by Dimovi
Are they poisonous or just not good?
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Well, kinda neither, but more importantly, you won't be getting fruits at all.
Musa basjoo is a wild species, it requires pollination to make seeded fruits. However, since you presumably only have one plant flowering, as it set out its female flowers it was waiting for pollen that doesn't exist, and thus the fruit cannot develop. You will see that it has transitioned to male flowers which provide pollen and then fall off each day, but by the time these appeared it is too late to self-pollinate (which is on purpose, to encourage outcrossing). So, you are left with little nubs of banana skins essentially, which will not grow into anything remotely useable. It won't even be seeded fruit with a little bit of pulp as would happen if it were to be pollinated, they will just be completely empty, no seeds and no pulp.
Domesticated edible bananas are parthenocarpic and can form pulp-filled seedless fruits without pollination, which is why only one flowering plant is enough to get edible bananas. Unfortunately, Musa basjoo is not that kind of banana, it's a completely non-domesticated wild relative.