The internet is full of fabulous facts about everything from current events to the history basket weaving. Because of this, as we research for our daily content on food trucks, food carts and street food, we stumble upon some items of knowledge that we just did not know. We have decided when these fun facts pop up, that we would share them with our readers in our section titled “Did You Know?”

For today’s Did You Know fun food facts we will look at Bananas.

The Fact: The banana plant is the world’s largest herb and is often mistaken for a tree, but it does not have a woody trunk or boughs.

• They are actually giant herbs of the same family as lilies, orchids and palms.
• In 2001, there were more than 300 banana-related accidents in Britain, most involving people slipping on skins.
• Bananas were noted by Arab traders as small, about the size of a man’s finger, and so called them banan, which means “fingertips” in Arabic.