Why are bananas yellow? - Alt title: Fruit spergatory containment thread

[Diggus Bickus]

You ever wonder why bananas are yellow, and while you're at it they're not called "Yellows"? Same could apply for apples not being called reds or pears not being called "Greens". But orange definitely deserves to have a name after it right?

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Because if they were green they would be pickles.

 

[Claude Sigma]

Fruit spergatory containment thread

Modern fruits are candies.

Because of overselection they lost most nutrients because those selected are those that grow very fast (no time to accrue micronutrients) and because people prefer sweeter things, the producers have been selecting for sweeter fruits for a very long time, thus creating the modern fruit, which has almost nothing in common with what the original natural fruits were, most of which don't even exist anymore.
You're not "Eating healthy" when you eat bananas and apples. You're eating candies.

 

[Daddy's Angry Juice]

Why do they call it Ovaltine, the can is round, the glass is round, why don't they call it Roundtine?

 

[TheSaltySpitoon]

orange definitely deserves to have a name after it right?

The color was named after the fruit. By your logic we should call “yellow” banana.

 

[Just A Fat Round Bird]

Completely disregarding red bananas.. have you no shame?

 

[Diggus Bickus]

The color was named after the fruit. By your logic we should call “yellow” banana.

We definitely should. It is definitely a color worth the name banana.

 

[Doxmatix]

A better question is why are so many bananas grown in Norway and Iceland. What the hell are they doing up there?

 

[Tablet County]

Why do they call it Ovaltine, the can is round, the glass is round, why don't they call it Roundtine?

Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?