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   It is said that bananas are the most popular fresh fruit in the United States. While some fruits, like apples and oranges, are also   1   as juice and in other ways, almost all bananas are eaten   2   right out of the peel.
   What is so great about bananas? Well, for one thing, they are rich in nutrients and   3   like potassium and iron. For another, they have no cholesterol and   4   any fat. And most important, for people watching their food bills, they are   5  .
   But this was not always the   6  . For many years, bananas were so expensive in America that most people   7   them a rare delicacy. The first bananas were brought over here in 1516 by a Spanish priest. They grew well in Central America, but could not   8   in the colder North America climate. The Puritans got their first   9   of bananas in the 1960s, but they hated them! This is not   10  , for they boiled them and then ate them-skin and all.