You're pretty hard on something you evidently don't understand. A Cavendish banana is definitely not a plantain (and doesn't cook particularly well, imo) India

You're pretty hard on something you evidently don't understand. A Cavendish banana is definitely not a plantain (and doesn't cook particularly well, imo) India is the world's largest producer of Cavendish bananas, but they are grown in the Americas too, and according to this report http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5102e/y5102e04.htm http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5102e/y5102e04.htm Cavendish is the largest produced type worldwide.