Banana

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Banana
Release	11 June 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Edible	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Values
Value	2 coins
High alch	1 coin
Low alch	0 coins
On death	Reclaimable Reclaim: 36 Sacrifice: 144
Exchange	240 coins (info)
Buy limit	1,000
Weight	0.028 kg
Examine
Mmm this looks tasty.
Exchange history
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A banana is a yellow fruit that players can eat to restore 200 life points. Bananas are not used in Cooking to make other food (they presumably are an ingredient of banana stew, but players cannot make this item). Bananas can be sliced in to sliced banana with a knife.

Uses for bananas

Bananas can be used to heal players, but their low rate of healing means that most players do not use bananas for this, except in special circumstances where bananas are readily available, such as when training on the creatures which reside in the Karamja volcano.

Players can make money from bananas on Musa Point by talking to Luthas and then filling a crate with 10 bananas, obtaining 30 coins. However, as 10 bananas are worth 2,400 coins on the Grand Exchange, it is much better to sell them there. In Pirate's Treasure, filling a crate with bananas for Luthas is necessary so that the player can smuggle a bottle of Karamjan rum off Karamja to Port Sarim.

Members growing a curry tree with the Farming skill can pay a gardener five baskets of bananas (a total of 25 bananas) to watch over the tree. Bananas can also be used in farming as an ingredient in making regular compost.

Members use bananas in Summoning. Bananas are required to make fruit bat pouches. Bananas are needed to bait baby pet monkeys, which requires level 27 Hunter and level 95 Summoning. Bananas are also necessary to feed the pet monkey when it becomes an adult.

The Ape Atoll Teleport spell requires a banana in addition to its cost in runes.

Players can use a knife or a bladed weapon (or even a godsword blade with no hilt) on a banana to turn it into sliced banana, which can be used as food and is needed for the Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest. A whole banana can be added to Karamjan rum, but this is a waste of both items as the item has no use.

During Monkey Madness, when the player has the monkey rescued from the Ardougne Zoo, the player can use bananas on the monkey to "feed" him.

If used on one of the monkeys next to the magic carpet stations while wearing a monkeyspeak amulet the monkey will take the banana, insult you and ask for more bananas.

Bananas are a good use of green charms for ironmen, as you can collect them yourself quickly, along with a familiar, and it is not a hard item to acquire. Signs of the Porter do not work.

Players can find bananas on trees in tropical locations, such as Karamja. Many banana trees are located in the plantation on Musa Point, and one of the easy Karamja Tasks requires players to pick five bananas from the plantation. A charged amulet of glory offers a teleport to just north of these banana trees. Bananas are also available on Ape Atoll, in the yard at the western house of the monkey child and in the south-western crates in the warehouse east of the magic shop.

The Karamjan banana plantation.

• Members can harvest bananas from banana trees that they grow from a banana tree seed at level 33 Farming.
• Wydin's Food Store in Port Sarim (10)
  • Crate in the back of the Port Sarim food store (requires wearing a white apron)
• Players can buy ten bananas from the main stock of charter ships
• Members can steal bananas from the monkey food stall on Ape Atoll, if they have at least level 5 Thieving.
• Ten bananas can be bought from the banana store in the Monkey Colony for a price of 2 coins each.
• Bananas can be created by casting the Bones to Bananas spell, which turns all bones in the player's inventory into bananas. The spell requires a Magic level of 15.
• Members may also receive bananas from opening Thieving chests in Daemonheim (only those in the barrels puzzle room).
• Members may receive bananas from opening a box of summoning ingredients, a possible reward from the Familiarisation Distraction and Diversion.

Drop sources

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Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity	Members
Exiled kalphite marauder	98; 107	1	Very rare
Exiled kalphite worker	75	1	Common
Ice giant	51	1	Uncommon
Jogre	57; 86	1	Uncommon
Kurask	78	10 (noted)	10/128
Solihib's Food Stall	5	1	Always
Spirit impling	54	18–24 (noted)	Unknown
Spirit impling jar	N/A	18–24 (noted)	Unknown
Zombie monkey	84	1	Always

Store locations

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Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?
Banana Store	Monkey colony	2	Coins	10
Solihib's Food Stall	Ape Atoll	2	Coins	10
Trader Stan's Trading Post	Ports with charter ships	2	Coins	10
Wydin's Food Store	Port Sarim	2	Coins	0

Disassembly

Disassembly category	Food and herbs
Disassembly XP	0.9
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  63.7% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 63.7% 1 34 63.1 2 49 61.8 3 64 60.5 4 69 59.2 5 78 58.0 6 83 56.1 7 91 54.8 8 95 52.9 9 105 51.0
Possible materials
Often
Organic parts	89/100
Sometimes
Crafted parts	8/100
Rarely
Living components	1/100
Healthy components	1/100
Enhancing components	1/100

foodfoodFood and herbstabletabletabletable33? (edit)0.963.7?  63.7%

Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched.
See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information.

Reduction		Junk chance
None	1	63.7%
1	34	63.1
2	49	61.8
3	64	60.5
4	69	59.2
5	78	58.0
6	83	56.1
7	91	54.8
8	95	52.9
9	105	51.0

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Update history

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• patch 11 January 2012 (Update):
  • Bananas now have a "slice" option.

• patch 28 March 2011 (Update):
  • Banana picking has had the "You pick a banana" message removed.

• patch 12 April 2010 (Update):
  • Reduced the price/shop stock restrictions on the following items: bananas, apple pies, redberries, cooked and raw karambwan, lobsters and oranges.

Trivia

• Bananas found in Dungeoneering chests (in the Barrels room) used to heal only 20 health points even after the Evolution of Combat. This has been since fixed.
• In issue 26 of the God letters (dated 1 November 2004), Saradomin revealed that he enjoys fresh bananas from Karamja.

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