#dailytrivia 🍌

#dailytrivia 🍌

Bananas might be your favorite fruit, but did you know they come with a hidden cost? Banana plantations are among the most pesticide-intensive crops, with workers regularly applying chemicals to keep pests and diseases at bay. While these pesticides help keep the fruit market-ready, they also pose risks to the environment, farm workers, and even the bananas themselves.

As one of most popular fruit, we consume more than 100 billion bananas per years, or 273 millions per day. In 2009, it was said that bananas and related industries have consumed world 85% of pesticides/fungicides.

Hope you learn something today!!