The answer to your curiosity is yes. You can eat the wild banana that has seeds since they aren't poisonous. You can consume both ripe and unripe variants. But they aren't consumed like a seedless banana.
Can humans eat wild bananas?
Can you eat wild bananas? Yes, you can eat wild bananas. Depending on the variety and location of the wild bananas, some can be quite delicious to eat and have almost no seeds at all.
Which bananas are not edible?
Banana Tree Fruit That being said, not all banana plants produce fruit that you can eat. Some varieties like the red banana, the dwarf banana, and the pink velvet banana are grown for their flowers. They do make fruit, but it's not edible.
Why are wild type bananas inedible for humans?
Wild-type bananas are found throughout Southeast Asia, but are mostly inedible to humans. With hard seeds studding the fruit, wild-types have little fruit that is eatable, rendering the wild-types relatively useless for their fruit.
Do wild bananas taste good?
You can't peel them and eat them like a "regular" banana, but you can slice the fruit from around the seeds (in the middle) and make some awesome banana bread the taste of which is quite simply impossible to achieve with store bought bananas. My kids say they taste "way more banana-y" than the ones from the store.
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