When out on the map screen if you mouse over hexes, or in the strategic view you can see icons if a hex contains a resource. Wheat and Bananas show up when you do this, yet they are not luxury/strategic resources. So why do they show up?
Civilization – Civ 5 – Why are Wheat and Bananas listed on the map
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The diplomacy summary that you get from clicking the scroll in the upper right will show you all the civs and city states at once, as well as what resources they have available, how much gold they have, and how much gold per turn they are making.
After some mod-browsing, I've found a mod called "All Promotions description tooltip". It adds a tooltip when hovering over a unit's icon in the bottom-left (its symbolic icon, not its painted portrait), which nicely lists all the promotions and their effects.
Before:
When hovering over that orange Frigate icon:
So this solved the problem for me, and I highly recommend this mod.
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Best Answer
They are food resources. They are similar to luxury/strategic resources in that they give you an additional bonus to the output of the hex if you build their corresponding building on the hex, but unlike luxury/strategic resources they don't provide any bonus other than to the output of the hex, and so they cannot be traded.
Other examples are Fish, Deer, and Sheep.