The native land of a banana (Musa) is considered to be tropical Asia. Very few people know that it is first of fruits which began to be grown up by the human. The banana was favourite fruit of Arabs, and Muslim conquerors have acquainted with it Egypt and East Africa in 650th year of our era.
The banana is considered to be an “ideal fruit", because it is very economic and has high food value. More than 100 sorts of bananas exist: they are use in a fresh or dried ways; people make the flour, liquor and beer from them. It also is used in the cosmetic field (for production of shampoo, etc.).
The excellent dessert is sweet banana chips. The slices of a banana roasted on palm oil are dropped into boiled sugar syrup, after that they become crackling and are long - stored. The banana as diuretic substance helps to reduce the amount of salts in organism. Due to high contain of iron and sugar, bananas help in case of anaemia illness and in general weakness of organism.
100g contain: Fat – 1.1 g Proteins – 3.8 g Carbohydrates – 88.8 g Energy – 360 kcal