Banana

Whole banana wrapped with cream in the middle will give the required taste and visual contrast of dark meat roll, cut in slices, add to fruit salads, and halved banana Serve with ice cream.

Description and Origin

Banana is known in Malaysia for more than 4000 years ago, where it was transferred to the Philippines and India, and information on its growth has brought the army of Alexander the Great's 327th BC.
The Arab traders brought it to Africa where they met with her Portuguese who in the late 15th century passed in the Americas. Today, the largest of its growers in Costa Rica, Mexico, Ecuador and Brazil. Thanks to the cooling system and the possibility of rapid transport to the fruit can be bought at markets in all parts of the world.
Banana is a plant that belongs to the family Liliaceae with lilies and orchids. Her trees can grow to eight feet tall. At the top of the tree are large, succulent, green and torn leaves that are quite soft so they break easily. Between the sheets appear one long branch with hanging blossom of about 1 meter in length. The flowers are yellow, and the fruits of the same name as the plant grows in the form of clusters which may contain 50-150 individual fruits.
The average banana weighs about 120 grams and long about 15 cm. Content within the crust is fleshy, soft part cream to yellow, orange, or even hazel color. It can be tough, rubbery even when unripe, changing in a gentle and satenast, or soft and starchy when ripe. Taste is mild and sweet or polukiseo with apple aroma. One of the hallmarks of a banana is its distinctive yellow color of ripe fruit, but not all of these bananas.
Ripe bananas can be dried and milled to a powder is necessary, which do not lose their flavor. They are used in food and dairy industry.
Of logs, bark and leaves of bananas for food for the animals.
Today it is more widespread than 100 subspecies of bananas that are covered by two types: sweet banana (Musa sapient, Musa nana) and flour banana (Musa paradisiaca).


Salubrity

Banana is a plant that belongs to the family Liliaceae with lilies and orchids. Her trees can grow to eight feet tall.
Banana is rich in potassium, a key mineral that helps normalize blood pressure, heart function, work cells, nerves and muscles. Many previous studies have shown that a diet rich in potassium, magnesium and dietary fiber reduces the risk of heart attack.
Ripe bananas contain compounds that act in two ways: by activating the epithelial cells lining the stomach to produce a thick protective layer of mucus, which is stomach acid barrier and eliminate the bacteria from the stomach (especially Helicobacter pylori) for which it is known to cause ulcer. In one of the studies showed that a mixture of banana and milk significantly reduces gastric acid secretion.
Bananas are a good source of pectin, a soluble fiber, which absorbs the liquid and thus support the normal peristalsis (movement) alimentary canal and facilitate excretion of stools.
Bananas also increase the body's own ability to absorb calcium, and thus indirectly the fruit helps to slow down the loss of calcium from bones in diseases such as osteoporosis.
A large amount of fructooligosaccharides in banana foods are probiotic bacteria, normal inhabitants of our intestines, which are more abundant, and in this way, and their production of vitamins and digestive enzymes that allow absorption of important nutrients, including calcium. A related and significantly reduce the risk of breast cancer.



Energy and nutritive value

Creamy, sweet and rich in dietary fiber and vitamins, a banana is a fruit that is worshiped by all generations. It is an ideal fruit for toddlers because it rarely causes allergies, and athletes is a source of energy and potassium. The combination of pectin and starch provides complex carbohydrates, whose decomposition releases energy gradually.
One banana (about 100 g) is 89 kcal / 372 kJ. Bananas contain 74% water, 1% protein, 0.5% fat, 13.5% sugar, 23% carbohydrates and 3.4% plant fiber. They are rich in potassium and contain magnesium, calcium, fluorine, phosphorus, iron, zinc and copper. Bananas are also rich in vitamins and, most contain beta-carotene, B group vitamins, and vitamins C and E.
This fruit is a good source of vitamin B6 and a good source of dietary fiber, vitamin C, potassium and manganese.
Unripe bananas contain about 25% starch and only about 1% sugar. Natural ripening enzymatic reactions leading to the conversion of the high level of sugar from starch, so ripe bananas contain about 20% sugar. It also contains probiotics, sugar, fructooligosaccharides (inulin).