Bananas

"Banania y'a bon..."

-       Medium:

-          Bananas are grown on plants and not trees, they are herbaceous:

o   It's a plant that has leaves and stems and dies at the end of the growing season

o   Banas are grown on the world’s largest herb plant

o   When they are grown, bananas create a hormone called ethylene which gives the banana it's flavor

§  Ethylene stimulates formation of amylase, which is an enzyme that breaks down starch into sugar, which is what gives the banana its dense feel.

§  When the bananas are green, thus not ripe, it’s because the starch has not totally been broken down yet.

o   Made up of pectin which makes the banana softer as they grow riper

-       - Bananas contain magnesium, selenium, iron, vitamin B6, vitamin C, and potassium.

-      -  They are made up of 23% of hydrocarbonate and .2% of fat

-      - They have three main parts: skin, seeds, and flesh

-      - Each banana stem consists of 10 to 14 hands each of them carrying form 18 to 20 bananas.

-      - Banana seeds are sterile, so you can't plant the seeds and expect the plant to grow

-      - Bananas are the most fattening fruit.

Quantitative:

Value

-       - The banana is one of the main exports fruits, the third most popular in fact, and it is exported by Philippines, Equator, and Costa Rica.

-      - India produces the most banana (23 million of tons) yet it is not one of the main exporters.

-       - This export trade is worth 6 billion dollars.

-      - In France, the price of a banana goes from 0.65 to 1.35 euros per kilo.

o   Based on how much the consumer is willing to pay

-       - Depending on the State, the price will vary

-       - 28% of bananas imported by Britain

Originality

-      - It is the only fruit that can be peeled that way, with so little effort, and no knife

-      -  Only fruit with that shape

-      - One of the only fruit that is that sweet, other fruits are sweet or bitter.

-      - One of the only fruits with no juice.

Signification

-       “Banania” y’a du bon -> France has imperialist ideology, and all it’s colonies so Black men who is “always happy” signifies the “banana fruit” that cures melancholy.

-       Joyful note of the banana was meant to show the joyful nature of the inferior races of the colonized.

Andy Warhol's "Velvet Underground"

-   "Banana Republic" -> shop