edible vs. non-edible
This might seem like a dumb question, but what is the difference between an edible banana and a non-edible one? My first thought, would be that the non-edible ones would simply not be able to be digested, for whatever reason. Although, don't animals eat wild banana fruits? If they can, why not us? Perhaps it's just taste and palatability that is the issue. I don't really like eating bananas anyway, so I wouldn't be the right person to ask, but I'm must wondering why we can't eat the 'non-edible' ones.
A related question is, if species bananas are all non-edible, from what I understand, then how, through breeding, do we get edible ones? What all of a sudden makes them edible?
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