Talk:Banana peel

Plantain peel

The term "banana" is a tricky one, as is discussed at Banana#Bananas and plantains and at Banana#Production and export.

• Is the article intended to be only about the peel of the relatively few banana cultivars with yellow skins imported into temperate countries?
• Is it intended to cover all cultivars of Musa, both those usually called "bananas" and those usually called "plantains"?

The statistics for "banana" production are pretty meaningless by themselves, because some countries split up banana and plantain production, and some don't. Some African countries are major producers of cooking bananas/plantains, but aren't shown in the map. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:30, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

I simply translated parts of de:Bananenschale. While they're some technical differences between bananas and plantains, they are not important for most people. This is not to say further expansion along those lines would not be useful; just the assertion that the topic is about the concept of "banana peel" as understood by most laymen. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 17:45, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Ok, I understand. As the article talks about "plantain peels" it is presumably intended to cover all cultivars. I'll check the statistics, but I'm pretty sure they need qualification. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:28, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

By the way, if this is translated from the German article, then as explained at WP:TRANSLATION, you should put the template here to say so. I'll do it now. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:58, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

To complete this thread, editors at the German article have accepted that the statistics and map were wrong; the map has been removed. This does illustrate a problem with the English language use of "bananas" and "plantains", which is an ambiguous distinction not made in German or most other languages. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:34, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

For the reference, the map in question was File:WeltBananenproduktion.png. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:38, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Hallucinogenic

In the 1960s, in England, there was a rumour (what would now be called a "meme") that if you dried out a banana skin, and smoked the result, it was hallucinogenic. It was, I believe, totally false. I hope someone can find a reference for this. Maproom (talk) 07:40, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

I think I already added an article on that to external links. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:37, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

lead - cleared up a badly worded sentence

I changed this: "Green plantain peels contain 40% starch that is transformed into sugars after ripening. Green banana peels contain much less starch (about 15%) when green while ripe banana peels contain up to 30% free sugars."

to this: "Green plantain peels contain 40% starch that is transformed into sugars after ripening. Green banana peels contain much less starch (about 15%) when green than plantain peels, while ripe banana peels contain up to 30% free sugars."

with the addition of "than plantain peels,".

reason: it is clearly stated, that any given sort of bananas (be it the plantain variety or trhe dessert variety) has a relatively high starch content when green which is gradually lowered during the ripening process by being transformed (eg: broken down) to sugars. so the sentence i changed only makes sense if it is sayeng that green dessert banana peel contains LESS starch if it means that in comparison to the other variety, plantain banana peels.80.98.114.70 (talk) 15:11, 2 April 2016 (UTC).