FILE - Fruit, vegetables and a whole chicken sit in a shopping cart in this arranged photograph inside a supermarket on Sept.
3, 2012. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg via Getty Images An online grocery store delivery and pick-up platform has revealed which is the top-selling grocery item in the U.S.
and Canada.Instacart, headquartered in California, shared its shopping data with FOX Business on Americans' add-to-cart preferences.
In fact, Instacart revealed that when it comes to this particular item, the company recently hit quite the "a-peel-ing" landmark: More than 1 billion bananas have been delivered by Instacart to date – making the yellow fruit the most popular grocery purchase.THE MOST POPULAR HOT SAUCES IN EVERY STATE IN AMERICA"While bananas are a big business everywhere in the country, Instacart data shows a clear pattern that folks in the Midwest and neighboring states have a higher share of banana purchases, especially in comparison to southern states and Hawaii," Laurentia Romaniuk, Instacart’s trends expert, told FOX Business.Bananas run the world: If you took all the bananas delivered via Instacart and placed them end-to-end, it would make over 5 trips around Earth.