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" When we heard about cotton candy grapes, we thought the grocery store was playing a cruel trick on us. How could a healthy fruit taste like delicately\u00A0spun sugar from the state\u00A0fair? But they&amp;#039;re totally real and we\u00A0soon became\u00A0obsessed. Now we&amp;#039;ve learned that mother nature has given us\u00A0another delicious, dessert-flavored fruit: the ice cream banana. Once again, we&amp;#039;re not kidding.\u00A0 Though there are more than a thousand types of bananas, the Cavendish is the most prevalent variety. It&amp;#039;s grown, imported, and eaten all around the world because they&amp;#039;re hearty and stand up well to overseas shipping; however they aren&amp;#039;t the fruit with the best flavor. And they&amp;#039;re actually being ruined by a fungal disease. But\u00A0another variety, the Blue Java, could dethrone the Cavendish as it\u00A0earns more and more\u00A0popularity for\u00A0tasting\u00A0exactly like vanilla ice cream. Blue Java bananas, often\u00A0simply known as ice-cream bananas, have peels with a frosted-tinge. Before they ripen, the bananas are more blueish and sea green than lime like its traditional Cavendish counterpart. Once ripe, the fruit itself is fluffy and creamy rather than overly\u00A0mushy and moist. So even haters that can&amp;#039;t stand the texture of the grocery-aisle Chiquita might actually like these bananas.\u00A0 These bananas are technically\u00A0considered a specialty tropical fruit, but the Blue Java is\u00A0not new. The\u00A0Huffington Post reports that, according to the Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers, they&amp;#039;ve been growing on the island\u00A0since the\u00A0early 1920s. And they&amp;#039;re the direct product of banana plants mutating on their own, which results in\u00A0distinct flavors from a range of\u00A0varieties that also includes apple bananas (citrus-forward) and Mysore bananas (with berry notes).\u00A0           For sale this weekend! Locally grown fresh picked Ice Cream Bananas (similar to blue Java) and the LAST harvest for the season of our own homegrown local organic mangoes! We&amp;#039;ll be at Wiregrass in Wesley Chapel this Saturday, and Hyde Park Village in South Tampa on Sunday. #thewildguava #localfood #localfruit #localproduce #localbusiness #smallbusiness #supportlocal #supportsmallbusiness #entrepreneurs #homegrown #floridagrown #flgardening #gardenfl #mango #mangoes #organicfood #nofarmersnofood #tampa #southtampa #tampabay #hydeparkvillage #bananas #icecreambanana #bluejavabanana #bananabunch #wesleychapel #wesleychapelfl #shopsatwiregrass @shopsatwiregrass #hillsboroughfl #fruitarian A photo posted by The Wild Guava (@thewildguava) on Sep 4, 2015 at 9:43am PDT     Unfortunately, if you want to get your hands on the ice cream banana, you might have to do some traveling. Short of buying your own banana tree\u00A0and maintaining its delicate, time-consuming care, you&amp;#039;ll likely have better luck heading to areas\u00A0where the plant flourishes:\u00A0Southern Florida,\u00A0parts of California and the Pacific Northwest,\u00A0Fiji, the Philippines, and\u00A0Central America.\u00A0 We love freezing bananas and dipping them in chocolate, slicing them\u00A0for peanut butter toast, and swirling them\u00A0into ice cream. But now we might not have to. Nah, who are we kidding? These babies would\u00A0probably make for the\u00A0most amazing\u00A0banana bread on the planet. Follow Delish on Instagram. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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