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Dvivian
04-18-2018, 07:50 PM
Finally I had my first Blue Java banana to eat. Banana Gallery - Musa acuminata × balbisiana (ABB Group) 'Blue Java' (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=2891)
It has taken at least 12 months to ripen! The flavour was very nice but not extraordinary, which you might expect since one of its other names is Ice Cream banana. They tasted nice but I had to stretch my imagination to imagine Ice Cream flavour.

I live on the warm temperate Adelaide Plains in South Australia: - see my newbie introduction at http://www.bananas.org/f11/newbie-adelaide-south-australia-48151.html

robguz24
04-19-2018, 05:09 PM
"Ice Cream" has to do with the texture, not the flavor.

Dvivian
04-19-2018, 05:20 PM
Thanks for the clarification:)

Valdus
04-19-2018, 06:51 PM
Out of my own curiosity, which banana variety does taste similar to "Vanilla ice cream"? If any.

Tytaylor77
04-20-2018, 03:17 AM
Musa Praying Hands has a vanilla taste!

I love the taste of real blue java but in my opinion it taste nothing like vanilla ice cream!

HMelendez
04-20-2018, 06:08 AM
I also agree with my bro Ty!....I had tasted Praying Hands and it tasted straight vanilla flavor!....One of my favorite Nanas!......



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robguz24
04-20-2018, 08:49 PM
Weird, I get no vanilla flavor out of praying hands. Orange though.

Valdus
04-20-2018, 08:54 PM
Ya'll know you have different taste buds no?

It's something I have always thought about, especially colors. If we are different people and perceive things differently, do people perceive color differently?

speakeasy
04-21-2018, 03:07 AM
Ya'll know you have different taste buds no?

It's something I have always thought about, especially colors. If we are different people and perceive things differently, do people perceive color differently?

People have different rods and cones, even in non-color blind poeople, so yes, people definitely perceive color differently.

My boss at one of my old jobs was mildly colorblind. He could distinguish blue from green, but his "blue" and "green" were different from the way normal people perceive it.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Color_blindness.png

AZMelissa
05-24-2018, 06:14 PM
I've had praying hands on my list forever because I love the look of it, knowing it tastes like vanilla...it is now a must have. lol