“These strings are known as phloem bundles, an unattractive name that curiously recalls the unpleasant feeling that some experience when encountering a string.”Īnd in case you’re wondering, yes, you can eat them. “The anatomy of a banana fruit is rather straightforward, with a protective outer layer-the skin or peel-and numerous strings running down the interior fruit lengthwise,” author Lorna Piatti-Farnell wrote. As a passage in the 2016 book Banana: A Global History explains: So what the heck is it? To put it simply, it’s the banana’s vascular tissue, a little thing called the "phloem bundle.“ There are a few of them in every banana and they basically work to ensure nutrients travel throughout the banana, so the fruit reaches its full potential. It’s a curio that few people discuss for some reason. I’m talking, of course, about the little string inside of the banana, which is often in the peel, but sometimes on the banana itself. Perhaps you’ve eaten one, unsure of what it was, and wondered why it wasn’t as sweet as the rest of the banana. Perhaps you’ve seen them and assumed that you weren’t really good at taking the peel off the banana-the equivalent of banana lint.
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