Saba se orita

Latundan

lakatan

#3 Bananas are very healthy! They are a source of what? Vitamin B6 Vitamin C Potassium All of the above Fat

Taxonomy
     

Kingdom:Plantae Division:Magnoliophyta Class:Liliopsida Order:Zingiberales Family:Musaceae Genus:Musa

Classification of Bananas


Bananas are classified either as dessert bananas (meaning they are yellow and fully ripe when eaten) E.g. Latundan, Lacatan, Se orita Green cooking bananas/plantains. E.g. Saba

Common names


Banana, Bananier Nain, Canbur, Curro, Plantain, Pisang KOREAN : Panana.

TAGALOG : Saging (Fruit), Puso (flower), Punong saging (plant). CHINESE : Jiao (Tsiu, Chiu), Shang chao fua (? flower).

Banana English name Plantain English name Cambur Colombia, Venezuela Bananier Nain - France Curro - Panama

The true origin of bananas is found in the region of Malaysia. Bananas have later traveled with human population. By way of curious visitors, bananas reached India.

In Alexander the Greats campaign in India in 327 BC, he relished his first taste of the banana.

Horticulturists believe that roots of banana plants were carried to the African East Coast by people who moved there.

Arabian slave traders are given credit with giving the banana its popular name

Banan is the Arabic word for finger.

Origin (Continuation)


The domestication of bananas took place in southeastern Asia. Many species of wild bananas still occur in New Guinea, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

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archaeological and palaeoenvironmental evidence at Kuk Swamp in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea (banana cultivation back to at least 5000 BC and 8000 BC).

banana is mentioned for the first time in written history in Buddhist texts in 600 BC. the Great discovered the taste of the banana in the valleys of India in 327 BC.
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existence of an organized banana plantation could be found in China in 200 AD.

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word "banana" has its root in the Arabic word "banan", which means "finger" and bananas are mentioned in the Qur'an.

Major Producers


In 2003 India led the world in banana production, representing approximately 23% of the worldwide crop, most of which was for domestic consumption. The four leading banana exporter countries were Ecuador, Costa Rica, Philippines, and Colombia

Top Banana Producing Nations as of 2005 (in million metric tons)

     

India 16.8 Brazil 6.7 China 6.4 Ecuador 5.9 Philippines 5.8 Indonesia 4.5

    

Costa Rica 2.2 Mexico 2.0 Thailand 2.0 Colombia 1.6 Burundi 1.6

The banana plant is a large herb with a succulent juicy pseudostem (a cylinder of leaf-petiole sheaths).

It reaches a height of 20 to 25 feet (6-7.5 metres) and arises from a fleshy rhizome or corm.

Each pseudostem produces a single bunch of bananas, before dying and replaced by a new pseudostem.  The base of the plant is a rhizome (known as a corm).

Tender, smooth, oblong or elliptic, fleshystalked leaves, numbering 4 or 5 to 15, are arranged spirally.

They unfurl, as the plant grows, and extend upward and outward becoming as much as 9 feet long and 2 feet wide.

At 10 to 15 months after the emergence of a new plant, its true stem rapidly grows up through the center and emerges as a terminal inflorescence which bears fruit.

The flowers appear in groups (hands) along the stem and are covered by purplish bracts which roll back and shed as the fruit stem develops. The first hands to appear contain female flowers which will develop into bananas which is usually seedless in edible types.

The term banana is applied to both the plant and its elongated fruit(technically a false berry) which grow in hanging clusters, with up to 20 fruit to a tier (called a hand), and 5-20 tiers to a bunch. Although the wild species have fruits with numerous large, hard seeds, virtually all culinary bananas have seedless fruits

The fruit turns from deep green to yellow or red.

The size of the fruit ranges from 2 to 12 inches in length and to 2 inches in width.

The fruit shape varies from oblong to cylindrical to 3-angled and somewhat curved and hornlike.

The flesh may be ivorywhite to yellow or salmon yellow.

It may be firm, astringent, gummy with latex when unripe and turning tender and slippery, or soft and mellow or rather dry and mealy or starchy when ripe.

Pollination Bananas are male sterile, and those of the Cavendish group are female sterile as well; fruit is set parthenocarpically.

 Salads Sandwiches Custards Gelatins Ice Cream Bread Muffins Cream Pies Jam or Sauce Milk Shake Baby Food and many more

Banana fibres are fashioned into delicate fibres that are made into barong tagalogs; and also paper. Banana leaves are widely used as plates and for lining cooking pits and for wrapping food for cooking or storage.

Economic Uses: Food

Seat pads for benches are made of dried banana pseudostems in Ecuador.

In Ceylon, it is fashioned into soles for inexpensive shoes and used for floor coverings.

Dried banana peel is used to blacken leather.

Flowers: bronchitis and dysentery Astringent Plant Sap: hysteria, epilepsy, leprosy, fevers, haemorrhages and diarrhea

Cooked flowers: diabetics Leaves: dysentery and diarrhea; used for treating malignant ulcers Roots: digestive disorders, dysentery and other ailments

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Food Uses

ripe banana -directly eaten -salads - ice cream (banana split) - pastry ( banana muffins, banana cake, cream pies) - infant food and puree to make jams or sauces - Canned in sirup for pies and gelatins - candies - beer and wine - banana catsup

Trivia

A cluster of bananas is called a hand and consists of 10 to 20 bananas, which are known as fingers. Often called the fruit of the wise men. In Eastern Africa you can buy banana beer. During religious and important ceremonies in India, banana flowers are tied around the head for good luck.

The banana market is controlled by five large corporations: Chiquita (25%), Dole (25%), Del Monte (15%), Noboa (11%) and Fyffes (8%) There are more than 500 varieties of banana in the world. Banana fruits ripen best off the plant.

Bananas have no fat, cholesterol or sodium. Bananas are a good source or vitamin C, potassium and dietary fibre. Bananas are great for athletic and fitness activity. One large banana only carries 140 calories and 36 grams of carbohydrates.

Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey.

Smoking: Bananas can help people trying to quit smoking because of the high levels of Vitamin C, A1, B6 and B12 they contain.

Banana can also be used for: Ulcer Anaemia High blood pressure Stress Brain power Stroke Constipation Depression Heartburn Morning sickness Mosquito bites Nerves Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) PMS Warts

 Banana plants are the largest plants on earth without a woody stem. They are actually giant herbs of the same family as lilies, orchids and palms. Bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium and dietary fiber. Bananas are America's #1 fruit. Bananas are available all year-round. They are harvested every day of the year.

 Bananas are great for athletic and fitness activity because they replenish necessary carbohydrates, glycogen and body fluids burned during exercise. In Eastern Africa you can buy banana beer. This beer is brewed from bananas. To the Indians, the flower from the banana tree is sacred. During religious and important ceremonies such as weddings, banana flowers are tied around the head, for they believe this will bring good luck.

 Depression: According to a recent survey amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier. Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.

 Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia. Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassiumpacked fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.

 Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. Smoking: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal. A small country that is economically dependent on a single export commodity, such as bananas

When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around. So maybe its time to change that wellknown phrase so that we say, "A banana a day keeps the doctor away!"

In the Philippines
Banana is one of the most common and widely grown fruit crops in the Philippines. It is also one of the country's major dollar earners, and has consistently ranked next to coconut oil and prawns in terms of value earnings during the last five years.

VARIETY (Of the 57 banana cultivars, the following are the most common in the Philippines):
    

Saba Lakatan Latundan Bungulan Cavendish