Interested in trying our FREE 7-day healthy banana oatmeal muffins plan? Bananas are the UK’s most popular fruit.

There are hundreds of edible varieties that fall into two distinct species: the banana and the plantain. Bananas have a distinct shape and a firm but creamy flesh inside a thick, inedible peel. The most popular type of banana is the large, yellow, smooth-skinned variety of sweet banana. This banana Musa sapienta varies in size and colour and is usually eaten raw. The larger, green bananas are known as plantains.