The Fast Food Fruit

The banana’s journey from the plantation to you is one long science project

Nautilus
Nautilus Magazine
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5 min readMar 12, 2019

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Illustrations: Jonathon Rosen

By Gloria Dawson

A truck is traveling on the freeway. Inside, stacks of bananas are piled high. Picked a few weeks ago at a plantation, they’ve traveled overseas in climate-controlled cargo ships, their color still green and unappetizing. But that won’t last for long. A…

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