Plantain

:This article is about the starchy banana. For the small herb, see Plantago

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Plantains are hard, starchy bananas used for cooking, as contrasted with the soft, sweet dessert varieties. Plantains are a staple food in the tropical regions of the world, treated in much the same way as potatoes and with a similar neutral flavour and texture when unripe. They are grown as far north as Florida, the Canary Islands, Madeira, Egypt, and southern Japan or Taiwan and as far south as KwaZulu-Natal and southern Brazil. It is unknown whether plantains were grown in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans.

Related Topics:
Banana - Cooking - Potato - Florida - Canary Islands - Madeira - Egypt - Japan - Taiwan - KwaZulu-Natal - Brazil - Americas - Europe

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