Fernando Larios eyes the stand of plantains running along one side of the Francis Avenue Community Garden in Koreatown. A large cluster of fruit, just out of arm’s reach, is almost ready. “It’ll be ...

Cassava, banana and plantain, staple foods for millions of the world’s poorest people, are notoriously difficult to breed. But an international team of scientists aims to change that, using a ...

If you've seen the two side by side at a grocery store, bananas and plantains look pretty similar. But are these fruits one and the same, or are they different?

We have no bananas today, but we have something very, very similar: something that brings us a very decidedly Latin American addition to our menus. This wonderful stuff, hot and tasty, comes from a ...

CARACAS, May 10 (Reuters) - A resistant fungus which wilts banana and plantain plants and infects soil could worsen the food crisis in Venezuela, where 6.5 million people already suffer hunger, ...

Compared to the banana, plantains have twenty times the vitamin A, about three times the vitamin C, double the magnesium, and almost twice the potassium. Compared to apples, bananas have less water, ...