Month: July 2015

Featured today on Fiber Focus Friday is the amazingly balanced and beaming banana. There is no other fruit quite like it. It’s cheap, versatile, and tastes amazing. As always, please comment with any questions or suggestions for future foods to be featured on Fiber Focus Friday! I want this post series to continue and to be AWESOME for generations to come (okay maybe not that long, but I am showing no times of stopping any time soon!). Without further ado, let us discuss the beautifully magnificent banana! The Banana Quick Fact Card Types of Bananas There are actually over 1000 different types of bananas that you can get! Here are a few of the more common ones: The Cavendish- this is the brand that you are probably most familiar with as it is the one that is found in most grocery stores across the US. Baby- These can be found in some stores, and as the name entails they are the smaller variety of bananas. I guess you could even call them the “snack size” of bananas, although I prefer a whole regular size banana myself! Manzano- this banana belongs to the subcategory of apple bananas. Firmer than regular bananas, and a tart taste true to its subcategory, give a manzano a try! They can be found mostly in Asian supermarkets, but I am sure you could order a case...