Why do bananas grow without any seeds?
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Why do bananas grow without any seeds?
You slice open a banana and look inside. No seeds. Not one hard little pit anywhere. So how does a new banana plant grow? Where did all the seeds go?
Here's the twist: wild bananas DO have seeds. Big, hard, tooth-cracking seeds that fill up most of the fruit. Ancient people found wild bananas in the jungles of Southeast Asia thousands of years ago, and eating them was like biting into a pod full of pebbles.
