cavendish bananas common dessert bananas sold
an alternative approach divides bananas dessert bananas , cooking bananas, plantains being 1 of subgroups of cooking bananas. triploid cultivars derived solely m. acuminata examples of dessert bananas , whereas triploid cultivars derived hybrid between m. acuminata , m. balbinosa (in particular plantain subgroup of aab group) plantains . small farmers in colombia grow wider range of cultivars large commercial plantations. study of these cultivars showed placed @ least 3 groups based on characteristics: dessert bananas, non-plantain cooking bananas, , plantains, although there overlaps between dessert , cooking bananas.
in southeast asia – center of diversity bananas, both wild , cultivated – distinction between bananas , plantains not work, according valmayor et al. many bananas used both raw , cooked. there starchy cooking bananas smaller eaten raw. range of colors, sizes , shapes far wider in grown or sold in africa, europe or americas. southeast asian languages not make distinction between bananas , plantains made in english (and spanish). both cavendish cultivars, classic yellow dessert bananas, , saba cultivars, used cooking, called pisang in malaysia , indonesia, kluai in thailand , chuoi in vietnam. fe bananas, grown , eaten in islands of pacific, derived entirely different wild species traditional bananas , plantains. fe bananas cooked, karat bananas, short , squat bright red skins, different usual yellow dessert bananas, eaten raw.
in summary, in commerce in europe , americas (although not in small-scale cultivation), possible distinguish between bananas , eaten raw, , plantains , cooked. in other regions of world, particularly india, southeast asia , islands of pacific, there many more kinds of banana , two-fold distinction not useful , not made in local languages. plantains 1 of many kinds of cooking bananas, not distinct dessert bananas.
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