Banana
Banana - a
perennial herbaceous plant of the banana family. In nature, there are 70 kinds
of bananas, from dwarf to tall (60
cm to 15
m in height). Psevdostvol banana - a strong, thick and
short, it is completely hidden under the ground. Rhizomes, which are
arranged spirally giant leaves in the tall varieties reach up to 4 meters in length and 90 cm in width.
Banana -
berries with leathery shell and juicy flesh, elongated, cylindrical, curved
sickle, cut, arranged in bunches, reaching 30-50 kg weight. In the fruit is
tasty and sweet, aromatic flesh powdery white-cream color.
The most
common garden varieties of bananas are banana “wise men” or an Indian banana,
up to 10 m;
banana Chinese, or the Cavendish banana, it is called a dwarf banana, or
Canario, up to 2 m.
Sort banana
“wise men” is a source of food for millions of people in tropical countries. Grade
Chinese banana fruits are lighter weight, more common because of the good tolerability
of the cooler climate. Sort plantain belongs to a group of mealy bananas, it is
called a banana dessert. The fruit of this banana is very rich in starch, but
they taste savory. Most often they are used in a boiled, baked or used to make
flour.
Banana - one of the first plants cultivated by man. It is believed that all of its
edible species evolved from a sharpened banana, native to the South - East Asia.
You should
know that bananas, dospevayuschie on the tree, do not achieve the required
flavor and aroma, and lose them. Peel and pulp of the fruit cracking
easily affected diseases. Therefore,
immature fruit is removed. Bought bananas should be stored in a cool - 10-12 °
C place, but not in the refrigerator. Greenish fruit stored at higher
temperatures, bunches of fruit hung, and not kept in plastic bags.
In fruit
pulp contains up to 80% of water, cellulose, pectin, improve digestion, starch
( 7-20 %), which when converted to ripening fruit sugar, protein - 1.3 %,
carbohydrate - 25% (mainly sucrose), malic acid, tannic and aromatic substances,
enzymes, vitamin C, B1, B2, B6, PP, provitamin A, catecholamines. According to
the content of vitamin C is not inferior to some bananas citrus fruit: ripe
fruit in a 100 g
pulp is from 8 to 12 mg of this vitamin.
Bananas
contain calcium, magnesium, sodium, phosphorus, iron, and a lot of potassium. Aromas
of fresh fruit depends on the presence of their flesh esters.
For many
populations bananas are an important food that replaces bread, meat, potatoes
and other foods. Eat them fresh or processed. Ripe fresh fruit is used as a
dessert, immature - as a vegetable dish. Flour and jams, jellies and marmalades,
syrups and wine, a coffee substitute made from the pulp of the banana. They
are fried and baked, boiled in oil, dried in the sun and smoked .
In the
tropics, green leaves, stems, roots, fruit and peel the fruits are used as feed
for cattle, elephants, pigs. Fresh and dried banana leaves are used instead of
wrapping paper, plates and fibers of the leaves make a rough paper, rope, mats,
fishing equipment.
Therapeutic use of bananas
* The
content of diverse and easily absorbed by the human sugary nutrients and
minerals, as well as the availability of a wide range of vitamins, bananas are
one of the most valuable fruit plants, which are increasingly used in medical
practice.
* Eating
1-2 bananas a day has sustained tonic effect: improved mood, concentration and
performance, reduces fatigue, clears the body.
* To gain
weight, increase muscle mass, should eat bananas every day. Sports doctors
working with wrestlers, football players and weightlifters, recommend them to
regularly consume this fruit.
Bananas as rice
play an important role in the specific diet Japanese sumo.
Bananas, as
a source of potassium and magnesium, are assigned to the fasting days of
patients with atherosclerosis and hypertension, if they can not tolerate
hunger.
Bananas are
useful in nephritis and liver disease, urolithiasis, with dialedeznyh bleeding
and stomatitis.
* In the
gastro-intestinal diseases fruits bananas are recommended as a mild laxative.
* The fruit
pulp contains important physiologically active substances - catecholamines:
dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine. Thanks to these substances bananas are
successfully used in the treatment of intestinal disease and peptic ulcers of
the stomach and duodenum. In children with gastro-intestinal diseases are an
effective means of crushed fruit banana.
* Bananas
are prescribed for diarrhea, enteritis, ulcerative colitis and diverticulitis.
* Juice of
banana has a positive therapeutic effect with hemorrhages in the stomach and
duodenum, with cholera and dysentery.
* Bananas
toning agent is contained ephedrine, which slightly raises blood pressure,
stimulates the central nervous system, increases blood sugar levels, and has a
spasmolytic effect on broncho-pulmonary muscles.
* Avicenna
wrote that bananas help as a remedy for impotence.
* When an
allergy is assigned banana diet that is good for the treatment of celiac
disease - an allergy to gluten in some cereals, detectable, usually in young
children up to 10 bananas a day, such a diet. However, the treatment of a young
child suffering from this disease, you should always consult with a physician.
Bananas
have sedative properties. The juice from the stalks of the plant is used as a
sedative and anticonvulsant in hysteria and epilepsy. These properties of
bananas have been scientifically confirmed.
* Unripe
bananas crushed, dried, and then applied to diabetic ulcers on the legs.
* The
healing properties and has a banana peel:
- Pack of
ripe banana peel is applied to the forehead and the back of the head to relieve
the pain associated with migraine;
- A
decoction of the fresh green rind is used as a remedy for high blood pressure;
- The inner
surface of the skin of a ripe banana is applied to burns, rashes, abscesses;
- From
plantar warts there is a method of deliverance, confirmed by clinical studies:
a banana skin attached to the base, the inner side to the wart, with washing of
feet it is removed and then replaced with fresh. This method requires long-term
treatment, but gives good results.
• Daily
consumption of bananas depends on the overall condition of the body, it is not
the same for different diseases. For therapeutic purposes, these fruits
should be consumed in doses and only under medical supervision. Bananas - heavy enough food, they
are slowly digested, produce flatulence in the intestine and impedes the flow
of bile. They should be thoroughly chew and eat small portions. Do not
eat bananas and drink on an empty stomach with water.
• Bananas
increase the density of blood, so they are contraindicated in thrombophlebitis,
varicose veins, as well as those who have suffered heart attacks and strokes.
• Bananas and banana juice should not be there in the
acidity of gastric juice.
• In
diabetes drug ripe banana should also be limited. But for people with
diabetes are immature good food and cooked fruits and ripe banana helps with
hypoglycemic episodes.
