Plantain A Fruit Or Vegetable. Plantains are more similar to a vegetable than a fruit in terms of culinary applications. The Breadfruit or Pana is one of the highest yielding fruit trees around.
The Breadfruit or Pana is one of the highest yielding fruit trees around. At first its colour is green but it turns to yellow and then black as it ripens. The plantain is consumed world-wide and is a major food staple in Southeast Asia West and Central Africa Central America the Caribbean Islands and regions of South America.
The simplest preparation for plantains green or ripe is fried.
Plantains are part of the Musa paradisiaca family. Plantains plátanos in Spanish look like large bananas. Plantains plátanos in Spanish look like large bananas. A plantain is the fruiting body of a type of banana plant and even though it is seedless this makes it a fruit no matter how your cook it.
