# The best banana and plantain varieties

Cavendish, Gros Michel, Canary Islands banana, Lady Finger, red banana and plantains: the best-known varieties.

- 49 votes · 17 items
- Jun 1, 2019 · salsabrava_tranquilo
- https://even.best/en/l/3980/the-best-banana-and-plantain-varieties

## Top 17

1. **Dwarf Cavendish** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Short-stemmed Cavendish.
2. **Red banana** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Reddish skin and sweet flesh with a raspberry hint.
3. **Canary Islands banana** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Dwarf Cavendish-type banana from the Canary Islands, with PGI.
4. **Lady Finger** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Small, slender and very sweet.
5. **Nendran** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Kerala plantain for cooking and chips.
6. **Gros Michel** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The dominant banana until the 1950s, nearly wiped out by Panama disease.
7. **Grand Nain** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Mid-sized, widely grown Cavendish.
8. **Mysore** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Small banana widely grown in India.
9. **Pisang Ambon** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Indonesian dessert variety.
10. **Goldfinger** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Disease-resistant Honduran hybrid.
11. **Latundan** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Philippine silk banana, slightly tart.
12. **Pisang Raja** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Indonesian banana with orange-yellow flesh.
13. **French plantain** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Cooking plantain for frying, patacones or mofongo.
14. **Horn plantain** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Large plantain with few hands.
15. **Rhino Horn** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Plantain with huge, curved fruit.
16. **Ney Poovan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Small and fragrant, from South India.
17. **Cavendish** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — The world's most traded banana.

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