Comments on: What Are Those Little Black Things? (Organic Mini Banana Bran Muffin Recipe)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:43:05 +0000

That sounds right to me, Jasmine! Thanks for the explanation.

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:48:02 +0000

Don’t worry those are called Phloem bundles and they carry all the nutrition in the bananas. They are the little stringy parts of the banana that come off of the skin of the banana when you peel it. Oh and they are black because they have been baked

By: Lisa Barnes

Lisa Barnes — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:08:31 +0000

That sounds good to me. We’ll see if anyone else weighs in.

Once you notice those black things, you’ll never look at a piece of banana bread without noticing again. Sorry.

Thanks Beth!
Lisa

By: Bess

Bess — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:00:01 +0000

Mystery black thingies: I have read that bananas don’t have true seeds but are sterile fruits where some have no seeds, some have “vestigial” seeds or dark marks where seeds would be. Perhaps the black spots in banana bread are just where those mashed dark vestigial seed zones are dispersed?

I sometimes get them in my banana bread too, but I never thought about it before!