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Fact or Fiction: Edible banana peel?

Posted at 1:43 PM, Feb 22, 2018
and last updated 2018-02-22 16:43:51-05

(KGTV) - Have farmers actually invented a banana that has a peel you can easily eat?

Yes!

Mongee bananas are produced by some farmers in Japan.

They're created by slowly cooling the bananas to well below freezing before thawing them.

The skin is thinner and easily digestible.