2. banana
DID YOU KNOW ? BANANA There are over 500 varieties of banana today. This means that if you ate a different kind of banana each day, you would take almost a year and a half to eat every last one! In fact, about 99.5% of banana-eaters in the world are eating varieties of banana that have been selected by farmers and haven’t changed in centuries. But wait: not all bananas are edible! In any case, bananas are loved and eaten the world over. East Africans, and Ugandans in particular, eat around 450 kg (992.1 lbs) per person per year. In East Africa, the word for bananas is “matooke,” which also means “food.” Bananas may be valuable, but there are many probl...