green bananas
Not yet yellow
Green bananas are unripe bananas, firm and starchy rather than soft and sweet.
They're used in cooking—fried, boiled, or mashed—in cuisines where bananas are treated as a vegetable rather than fruit.
The phrase also appears in expressions about longevity: an old person who doesn't buy green bananas doubts they'll live long enough to see them ripen.
- unripeNot ready for harvest
- plantainsStarchy banana relatives
- starchyContaining complex carbohydrates
- firmSolid or resolute
- cookingPreparing food with heat
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