BANANA SUNDAE (ICE-CREAM BEAN)

Written By Alex Crowson
 

You think ice cream grows on trees?! The ice-cream bean (Inga edulis) is one of nature’s greatest gifts to humanity. This agroforestry behemoth is South America’s fruity answer to sweet-toothed nature enthusiasts. And what is a fruit, anyway?

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Cover art by Jillian Barthold
Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals
Episode cover photo by Jason Hollinger

Additional Reading:

Ice cream bean tree (Inga edulis)
Ever had an ice cream bean for dessert?
Edible Inga Fact sheet
Fruit Morphology
The noni fruit talk

 
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