The group includes any type of Plantains or cooking bananas, which are high in starch and, though edible raw when very ripe, they are normally used as cooking staple food. They include mostly triploids Hybrids (Musa x paradisiaca AAB, ABB Groups), but also some non-hybrids (Musa balbisiana BB and BBB Groups and Musa Acuminata AAA). The part consumed/analysed is not specified. When relevant, information on the part consumed/analysed has to be reported with additional facet descriptors. In case of data collections related to legislations, the default part consumed/analysed is the one defined in the applicable legislation.