🍌A banana with an edible peel is now available for sale in Japan.
A new kind of banana.
Most of the world’s bananas are grown in tropical temperatures that consistently hover around 80°F (27°C), but D&T Farms in southern Japan keeps its banana trees at a frigid -76°F (-60°C).
Then, the farmers replant the trees in an 80°F environment.
The result of the wildly different temperatures is enough to encourage the plants to jolt into a state of rapid growth, producing a banana with a peel that doesn’t entirely mature, making it thin, soft, and sweet enough to eat along with the regular part of the fruit.
The fruit—called the Mongee banana—is now available in extremely small, 10-banana batches sold each week in a regional Japanese retail outlet called Tenmanya Okayama.
Quartz
https://qz.com/1191654/a-banana-with-an-edible-peel-is-now-available-for-sale-in-japan/