How ripe should the perfect banana be? Cast your vote for your favorite one?

How ripe is a banana at its most delicious?Do you like bananas that are slightly green, brown and mushy, or somewhere in between?

You might think there is only one right answer, but an online debate about the perfect ripeness of bananas proves that people strongly disagree about the best time to eat a banana.

A photo shared by the Instagram account "Fitness Meals," which has 2.3 million followers, went viral on the platform; the photo showed a large bunch of bananas at different stages of ripeness.

They were labeled with numbers from 1 to 15, with 1 representing the most unripe and 15 representing overripe.

The photo, which received 4,700 likes, asks you to choose your idea of the "perfect" banana from 15 bananas, and fruit fans' choices varied widely.

Most banana lovers said they would pick numbers 8-10, bananas with no green unripe parts, while number 10 has a few brown spots on its peel.

Some chose the less ripe number 6 or number 7 bananas, and others said they would pick number 11, which is covered in dark brown spots.

However, a few said they like number 2, a greenish, completely unripe banana.

How ripe should the "perfect banana" be?

Harley Street nutritionist Rhiannon Lambert points out that no matter how ripe a banana is, it is rich in potassium and other nutrients.

However, Rhiannon says that if you have diabetes, or have trouble digesting bananas, eating bananas at a specific ripeness may be beneficial to your health.

She said: "For people with diabetes caused by high blood sugar, medical advice may restrict them from eating bananas, but this is at the doctor's discretion."

"Research shows that in unripe bananas, starch makes up 80%-90% of the carbohydrate content, and as bananas ripen, the starch turns into free sugars. Therefore, people with diabetes are advised to eat underripe bananas to avoid causing high blood sugar."

However, Rhiannon says that for most people, riper bananas may be easier to digest.

She explained: "When resistant starch turns into simple sugars, the banana is ripe, and research shows that ripe (yellow) bananas are easier for most people to digest.

"The higher the glycemic load index of a ripe banana, the faster it is digested. Think of athletes eating bananas for an energy boost.