Originally Posted by Illia

There's a few GMO Plantains out there, haven't a clue which cultivars. (They're african though) Otherwise they're just as good as bananas, in fact many perfectly sweet bananas are also plantains. Even the storebought plantains fully ripe are practically sickeningly sweet. There's really no difference though, only in one variety from the other, the same as normal sweet ones. Plantains normally are thicker and larger in fruit size, that's about it. Some aren't sweet but not all.

The common Orinoco is a plantain. The true Ice Cream (not the falsely sold Namwah) is considered a plantain I believe?