Are Trader Joe's 19-Cent Single Bananas Actually Cheap? - Chowhound

So how does the 19 cents per banana compare to per pound pricing? There's one key consideration: weight. Banana weight is reliant on several factors including the type of banana, when it was picked, and its level of ripeness. In the United States, most of the bananas we consume today are the Cavendish variety — that canary yellow, stereotypical banana. It takes about three of those to get a pound of bananas. The…