1, appearance difference

The first is to distinguish the two from the appearance. Bananas are generally shaped like crescent moons, with shorter fruits and angular skins, usually five or six sides.

Take bananas as an example. Their fruits are longer than bananas. Usually, fruits are narrow at both ends and wide in the middle, which makes them look fatter. Its tail is curved and the other end is straight. There are not as many edges on the banana skin as bananas, so these points can be easily distinguished.

2, color distinction

Banana skin color is generally green before ripening, yellow after ripening, there will be some brown spots on the skin, and the pulp will generally feel a little yellow. After cutting them in half, you will find that bananas are round. The peel of banana is dull, and the surface is shiny when it is ripe. The pulp looks white and the shape of the pulp is wide and flat.

3. Taste difference

Speaking of these two fruits, which one tastes better? Generally speaking, bananas taste much better than plantains. Bananas smell delicious and taste sweet and refreshing. Although bananas taste sweet, they taste a little sour. Therefore, when buying these two fruits, you should choose bananas with delicious taste.

4. Nutritional value

In terms of nutritional value, in fact, plantain and banana are both high-potassium foods, which are rich in magnesium and have nutritional value for preventing diseases. But bananas are cold, while plantains are warm, which can supplement the fiber and water-soluble substances needed by the human body.

5. Other differences

Banana tree is a kind of plant that likes hot and humid climate. Banana tree likes warm and cold-resistant environment. Therefore, due to different growing environments, bananas are hot fruits and bananas are cold fruits, and their suitability for people is also different. In addition, due to the small planting area and wide planting area of bananas, the so-called scarcity is expensive, so the price of bananas is more expensive than bananas.