OHANA BANANA FARM

The Big Island is the largest domestic producer of bananas in the United States. The Tarring's Ohana Banana Farm is one of the largest suppliers of fresh apple bananas in Hawaii - and the world's only supplier of Hawaiian Candy Apple Bananas... In 1985, in the sleepy windward district of Puna, on Hawaii's Big Island, the Tarring ohana (family) began carefully cultivating a very special banana crop. Since then, the ohana farm has become one of the largest producers of Hawaiian apple bananas on the Big Island, with 100 acres harvesting year-round... Named for their candy-sweet flavor, Hawaiian Candy Apple Bananas are grown on the verdant slopes of Hawaii's most active volcano, Kilauea. Smaller than the more common Cavendish variety, Hawaiian Candy Apple Bananas are firm, but moist, and the flesh has a slightly pinkish tone, which deepens with cooking or baking.

Also known as: apple bananas, Ohana Banana Farm, Inc.

Primary location: Kurtistown United States