Though Southeast Asia, where bananas originated, grows dozens of varieties of banana, the Cavendish is the only kind deemed acceptable for export. This is a pi

Though Southeast Asia, where bananas originated, grows dozens of varieties of banana, the Cavendish is the only kind deemed acceptable for export. This is a pity because a lot of the bananas you see here in SE Asia are more flavorful than the Cavendish anyway. Industrial agriculture's need to produce identical, identifiable, marketable products year after year is responsible for some very destructive and fragile monocultures.