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Banana, the happy fruit rich in energy

Health benefits of eating bananas (Photo: iStock)

A banana or ndizi in Swahili is an elongated curved fruit produced by different types of herbaceous flowering plants.

It could be yellow, green, red, purple or brown depending on the class it belongs to. The most common variety is cavendish or dessert banana which has a firm green rind when unripe and a yellow flexible one when ripe.

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