Have you ever pushed your grocery cart past the basket of green, yellow and brown produce items that look like bananas, but don't feel or smell like bananas...and kept walking? Back that cart up! Your diet has been missing the mighty, versatile plantain. This cousin of the banana is packed with bushels of vitamins A, C and potassium. But, the common banana's nutritional value is no monkey business, either. As the plantain almost always needs to be cooked, the banana is a fat, sodium and cholesterol-free instant snack! GO BANANAS learning how to incorporate plantains of every stage into your next meal with Cuban-inspired recipes from John Verlinden, or finish your dinner with Billy Brandolini's heavenly Bananas Brûlée.