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English translation: banana // banana (unprocessed)

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Spanish term or phrase:	banana en fruta
English translation:	banana // banana (unprocessed)
Entered by:	José Luis Villanueva-Senchuk

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14:32 Feb 17, 2003

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Agriculture / Agriculture

Spanish term or phrase: banana en fruta

This appears in a Costa Rican contract for the sale of bananas:

"El precio a pagar por la Compradora a la Productora será el precio mínimo de ***banano en fruta*** para la exportación F.O.B. por caja..."

Would "banana fruit" work?

Lee Penya KudoZ activity Questions: 678 (5 open) (18 without valid answers) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 37
Local time: 15:22

banana-fruit // banana (unprocessed)

Explanation:
Hola,

Después de vivr en
Ecuador, primer exportador de bananas (Cavendish) del mundo, por más de 15 años y trabajar en un verificadora que controla la calidad de la fruta, me atrevo a decirte que no me equivoco.

Las bananas no se venden/negocian en racimo si se trata de exportaciones. Se venden al peso. Para más detalle las manos (gajos) se colocan dentro de las cajas...

Suerte,

JL

Se refieren a que se vende la fruta tal cual - sin proceso alguno

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Yo la verdad me quedo con \'banana\' o un (unprocessed) entre comillas pero nada más.

El que compra bananas sabe que \'banana\' a secas means \'en fruta\'. Si fuese de otra forma lo especificas pero es que en la exportación de bananas (plátanos) no se suele da otra presentación que no se \'banana\' or \'banana puree\'

El banano no se exporta en racimo.

JL

Selected response from:

José Luis Villanueva-Senchuk
Argentina
Local time: 17:22

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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +2

banana-fruit // banana (unprocessed)

José Luis Villanueva-Senchuk

4 +2

bananas on the vine

Marian Greenfield

banana in natura

Mario La Gatto

banana fingers

Jane Lamb-Ruiz

banana as fruit

Clauwolf

3 +1

fresh bananas???????????

Dan Brennan

banana

Lucy Phillips

Answers

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

bananas on the vine

Explanation:
banano en fruta is fruit-bearing banana tree/plant (which is it/?)

I'm not sure whether you say on the vine or on the plant for bananas

Marian Greenfield
Local time: 16:22
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 32

6 mins confidence:

banana as fruit

Explanation:
:)

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activity. describe some of the foods they frequently eat, each in
terms of type or taste eg banana as fruit, crisps as salty; with ...
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes/science/ sci2a?view=the_whole_unit&index=1 - 26k - Em cache - Páginas Semelhantes

Clauwolf
Local time: 17:22
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

13 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

banana-fruit // banana (unprocessed)

José Luis Villanueva-Senchuk
Argentina
Local time: 17:22
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

14 mins confidence:

banana fingers

Explanation:
bananas on the stalks are called banana fingers or hands: see below

Post-harvest handling, packing. Bananas are carried by hand to a packing shed, or in large plantations, hung on tramways and pulled out of plantings by tractors; this expedites the process and limits handling. Bananas should be kept out of light after harvest, since this hastens ripening and softening. For local consumption, hands are often left on stalks and sold to vendors who cut HANDS/FINGERS to customer's order. For export, hands are cut into units of 4-16 fingers, graded for both length and width, and carefully placed in poly-lined 40 lb boxes. Prior to packaging, fruits are sometimes floated in water or dilute sodium hypochlorite solution to remove latex which may cause black peel staining. Fruit are shipped by boat when green, and ripened by exposure to ethylene gas (1000 ppm for 24 hr) at their destination, in sealed "banana ripening rooms".

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from an EU site:
Quality / storage period
Bananas which are to be transported must be in sound condition, clean, whole, fresh, free from foreign smells und flavours, free from abnormal moisture and must be unharmed. The colour of the fruits should correspond to the ripeness degree 1. Furthermore, they must be free from decay and mechanical damages. The HANDS must be treated against stem or crown rot in a fungicide bath/cocktail.

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More:
Next, the BANANA HANDS are split up into smaller groups of FINGERS consisting of four to eight bananas. After being laid out on trays, the fruit is weighed for shipment in boxes. A further disinfectant shower follows, the brand labels are affixed and the quality bananas packed in boxes. These are transported straight to the harbour from the packing station.

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FINAL: bananas grow on stalks
when picked and still on stalk: hands
Individudal bananas are fingers.

They are packed in boxes with holes in hands.

HOWEVER, for your text it means bananas in boxes FOB.

BECAUSE IN Spanish, they are contrasted to:

Bananas en fruta VERSUS bananas en some other form ie banana paste for example.

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FRESH BANANAS

Jane Lamb-Ruiz
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 12

19 mins confidence:

banana

Explanation:
simply, unless I am missing some connotation.

there may be a more precise technical term though!

Lucy Phillips
Local time: 21:22
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 8

36 mins confidence:

banana in natura

Explanation:
Simple as that.

Mario La Gatto
Brazil
Local time: 18:22
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

Portuguese

55 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

fresh bananas???????????

Explanation:
some of the alternatives suggested above sound a bit...er.... fruity, to me. surely it is something straightforward like this.

PS I've worked in Costa Rica for the last two years on coast-to-coast bike rides - each time we've ended up riding into one of the banana ports on the atlantic coast - piled high with Dole containers - can't remember what was written on them - it was kind of obvious what was inside!!! - but it wasn't banana fingers and it wasn't bananas as fruit!!! (the latter begs the question what else could they be: bananas as dangerous weapons, bananas as a philosophical concept...?)

Dan Brennan
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:22
Native speaker of:

English

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