A line selected from a fruit name alone leaves important questions open. Ripeness changes the material arriving at peeling, size reduction and pumping. A representative lot is more useful than a promise that every banana will behave alike.
Record the lot you actually tested
Identify cultivar where known, arrival condition, ripening history and pulp temperature. Keep the visual ripeness description with these records. Peel appearance can be useful, but a photo is not a measurement of how the pulp moves through a machine.
Use a range, not one ideal sample
Select normal incoming material and the credible difficult conditions. A small, unusually uniform demonstration lot can hide feeding interruptions, texture variation or extra inspection work. Compare output using the same sampling and measurement points.
Connect the evidence to the proposal
Ask the equipment proposal to identify the tested raw-material envelope. State which changes require another trial. Record the accepted flesh, rejects and finished puree separately so a recovery figure has a clear basis.
Source context
UC Davis: Banana (Cavendish). Maturity, ripening and handling context; the factsheet identifies starch-to-sugar changes during ripening.
The equipment-check questions above are a project-preparation framework, not a validated operating procedure.