I haven’t eaten a Cavendish variety yet. We call those plantains in our part of the world and use it for cooking, as a morning breakfast steamed, as a fruit, as well as deep fried snacks.
I haven’t eaten a Cavendish variety yet. We call those plantains in our part of the world and use it for cooking, as a morning breakfast steamed, as a fruit, as well as deep fried snacks.
India is the world's largest producer of Cavendish bananas, but they are grown in the Americas too, and according to this report http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5102e/y5102e04.htm Cavendish is the largest produced type worldwide.
Entirely anecdotal, but I've traveled a great deal. The cavendish cultivar seems to be the most common across the globe but I'd not be surprised to find out that it is more a plurality than a true majority.
There are quite a few different types of banana, despite the claims if Western media, so it may be that this particular cultivar is the most popular while only being something like 35% of the total market.
Either way, there are lots of different cultivars and some of them are more appealing, to me, than the cavendish. I don't know the real name, but there is a red banana that I ate in Peru. It was not that large but tasty. They don't sell it anywhere near where I live.