Do you even know what kind of bananas you're grabbing, or that there are more than 1,000 different varieties of the fruit? The answer to the first question is most likely no. Sure, you've probably ...

Why not use them? Already in countries like India, Indonesia and the Philippines people eat tens of different varieties of bananas, all of which offer different tastes, smells and sizes.

NHS surgeon Dr Karan Rajan explained that each stage of ripening presents "a completely different nutritional profile", with a typical banana undergoing three main phases, reports the Express.