Bananas are the perfect snack, because they are not only sweet and delicious, but also easy to carry around. Best of all, bananas can provide different things that the human body needs!
Bananas grow best in warm places that get lots of rain. They grow on plants that look like trees. The banana plants can grow as high as 30 feet (英尺).When they reach their full height, flowers grow out from the plants. These lowers produce bananas.
The plants produce fruit twice or three times each year. The bananas grow together.Theyseem like "hands". A hand is made up of 10 to 20 bananas. Farmers sometimes call bananas "fingers". Each bunch (串) of bananas has about 15 hands, and so a whole bunch may have as many as 300 bananas and can weigh more than 100 pounds.
After about three months, farmers are ready to pick the bananas. At this point, they still aren't the sunny yellow color. Farmers pick them when they are green. When travelling to stores, they turn yellow along the way and are ready to be sold.
Americans love the fruit. They eat more bananas than any other fruit. More bananas are sold than apples and grapes together. Every American eats over 26 pounds of bananas each year!
