# Bananas

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- Book: [Bananas](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-jenkins/bananas) ([Bananas.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-jenkins/bananas.md))
- Authors: [Virginia Jenkins](https://www.bookquiver.com/virginia-jenkins)
- Publisher: smithsonian_books
- ISBN: 978-15-6098-966-0
- Pages: 244
- Published: 2000-08-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Before 1880 most Americans had never seen a banana. By 1910 bananas were so common that streets were littered with their peels. Today Americans eat on average nearly seventy-five per year. More than a...