Known to taste like vanilla ice cream, blue java bananas are mostly grown in Southeast Asia and Hawaii.
The worldwide popular banana is also a very nutritious fruit. Apart from the yellow bananas we know these days, a new type of banana that is blue is growing in popularity.
These bananas, called blue java bananas, have a bluish hue and creamy texture, and stand out with their vanilla ice cream flavor.
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Cultivated in the Southeast Asian region, these blue java bananas are a well-known fruit in Hawaii as well.
Known to be a hybrid of Musa balbisiana and Musa acuminata , the blue java bananas are interestingly cold-hardy and can grow even at temperatures below freezing.
Blue java bananas, which have ideal growing temperatures of 40 °F ( 4-5 °C ), turn pale yellow as they mature.