The City of Fort Pierce invites the public to attend a Community Input Meeting on the future redevelopment of the former HD King Power Plant site, on Wednesday, August 24, between 5:30 and 7:00 pm at Old City Hall (315 Avenue A).
Large and thick skinned, the plantain is a starchy banana. Their skin can be yellow, green, red, brown, or black. However, plantains always have pale yellow, firm flesh. It's easy to confuse plantains with with bananas. Plantains are a member of the banana family, but they are large, thick-skinned, starchy and low in sugar. Black plantains can be eaten raw. Other color plantains are cooked- baked or fried- before serving. The plantains flesh will always have pale yellow, firm flesh regardless of the skin color. Plantains are highly nutritious and considered a good source of potassium, vitamins A and C.
The name plantain is also used for a starchy form of the banana banana,name for several species of the genus Musa and for the fruits these produce. The banana plantâone of the largest herbaceous plantsâis native to tropical Asia but now cultivated throughout the tropics...... Click the link for more information. ; the water plantain, Alisma plantago-aquatica, is another unrelated species. Plantains are classified in the division Magnoliophyta Magnoliophyta, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms.