I don’t know about you, but bananas are a staple in my house. In
fact, it’s the first thing my son asks for every day when he
wakes up. (It would be wrong to leave a bunch in his crib,
right?) I can’t imagine what would happen if we had no bananas,
which are one of the best fruit sources of potassium (a nutrient
associated with healthy blood pressure) and boast good doses of
vitamin C, cell-building B6 and fiber. Recipes to Try: The Best
Way to Store Bananas & More Helpful Tips  But according to a new
article out in The New Yorker , the Cavendish banana, which
Americans eat more of than any other fresh fruit, may be in
danger of being wiped out completely by a soil-borne fungus,
called Tropical Race Four, that is harmful only to bananas. New
Yorker reporter-at-large Mike Peed writes: Tropical Race Four
appeared in Taiwan in the late eighties, and destroyed roughly
seventy per cent of the island’s Cavendish plantations. In
Indonesia, more than twelve thousand acres of export bananas
were abandoned; in Malaysia