Ng Hong Chai’s gardening hobby isn’t just about cultivating plants. It’s a way to stay active. He finds joy in nurturing ...

Yes, there are over 1,000 types of bananas out there, and these are the ones we think you'll wish you knew about sooner. Get ready to learn all about bananas.

Canned bananas would really only be a practical option if fresh varieties were difficult to find during certain times of the year. But this isn't the case.

Gabriel Sachter-Smith is a banana aficionado who has identified some 500 varieties of banana on expeditions around the tropical world. “It’s like collecting Pokémon,” Mr. Sachter-Smith said ...

Ripe bananas add a subtle grassy, creamy sweetness to the fragrant sauce. Jodie Kautzmann is an editor, baker, and confectioner with more than 15 years of experience in content creation, recipe ...

Kern, who is chair of the West Los Angeles chapter of California Rare Fruit Growers, finally gave up growing Gros Michel, but ...

The bananas we eat, called Cavendish bananas, are threatened by a plant-killing disease called fusarium wilt. This disease has already wiped out other banana varieties, and it devastated banana ...

Besides the Cavendish bananas that dominate modern supermarket shelves, residents of banana-producing nations rely on a multitude of local varieties, including plantains, for their food security ...

To that end, Yelloway is studying the DNA of 150 banana varieties, to make a kind of banana family tree, Fernando García-Bastidas, the head of the banana breeding program at KeyGene, told BI.