Green banana (unripe, sliced)

Green banana refers to unripe bananas, which are starchy and firm rather than sweet, similar in some ways to plantains. They are typically cooked, boiled, fried, or added to savoury dishes, since their unripe starch content makes them unpalatable eaten raw in the way ripe bananas are. Cooking softens their firm texture and mellows their starchy flavour.

An unripe ingredient is typically firmer and lower in water content than its ripe counterpart, which affects how it packs by volume.

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