Banana Manna

Bananas are grown in most tropical regions of the world. They collect all green and they ripen during transport. In most cases, even unripe bananas are sold. To give them ripen, they should be stored at room temperature. After that, another four or five days, they are perfectly stored in the refrigerator, wrapped in newsprint. Even if this skin will become dark brown, the flesh remains fresh, firm and keep cream. Unripe bananas contain so-called "resistant" (insoluble) starch - it is so called because it can not be digested in the small intestine and is fermented in the colon, which often cause flatulence. As the fruit ripens much of the starch turns into sugar, which is why ripe bananas are not only sweeter, but also much easier to digest. That's why more and because they rarely cause allergic reactions (in a small number of adults of bananas are migraines), bananas - a popular solid food for infants. In addition, they are useful in the event of stomach ailments in children, for example in U.S. children with diarrhea often translate into "children's diet, including bananas, rice, applesauce and toast (banana flour, and flakes are widely used in baby food). Many people suffering from a stomach ulcer, argue that bananas soften the pain, perhaps due to the fact that bananas are very sweet flesh. Nonuniform nokratno undertaken studies of therapeutic effect of these fruits of gastric ulcer. Even claimed that bananas help restore cells and gastric mucosa, while enveloping the stomach wall, bananas help to heal existing ulcers and prevent new ones. However, to date there is too little evidence to support such conclusions. Bananas - good source of potassium. In humans, this macro enters into the cells. He needed the heart, liver, brain, bones, teeth, but most of all - the muscles. Each person per day is required to receive not less than 1 gram of potassium, and the optimal daily requirement in it for adult is 3-4 g. Children also need potassium daily in an amount of 16-30 mg per kilogram of body weight. Lack of potassium in the body can cause dystrophy, even in the normal protein consumption. Until dystrophy, of course, it does not reach (potassium we have with potatoes, cabbage, radishes, apricots), but those who are cramping leg muscles, especially at night, lack this element. Bananas - champions for the content of potassium: 100 mg flesh found 376 mg of potassium. For comparison, the sodium in it 1 mg of calcium - 8 mg, iron - 0.7 mg, phosphorus - 16 mg. "Potassium is involved in regulating water-salt metabolism and promotes the excretion of excess fluid", - states the specialists of the Institute of Nutrition. Hence, the bananas are useful in all diseases accompanied by edema. In an additional source of potassium - two bananas a day - need and cores. Banana perfectly assimilated, there was little fat, and these properties make it a desirable product for bed-ridden patients, as well as for those who received postoperative complications, including septic, as well as for the affected extensive burns, cancer patients, especially during periods of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Both fresh and dried bananas are rich in natural sugar, which is the digestion of rapidly enters the bloodstream. Therefore, many athletes, especially tennis players often eat bananas before and during competition. Alas, diabetics can not eat bananas - too much in them of sucrose and a little fructose and glucose - this sad fact that nothing can be done. But all the rest - and the sick and healthy - bananas are desirable. Bananas in large amounts to nothing obese people, but sometimes eat them and not hurt. And if someone wants to get better, eat, how much soul and ask for a purse stand. Plant, or green bananas are extremely unpalatable and are not digested by the stomach, they are bitter because they contain a lot of tannin, but during the heat treatment of rancidity significantly weakened. Plantin contain more starch than ripe bananas, because they have not yet turned into starch into sugar. Some researchers believe that a diet rich in such a poorly digestible starch, causes a low incidence of gastric cancer. Currently, new studies whose aim - to establish that, to prevent gastric cancer starch is as important as the fiber. What is something interesting grow bananas? Normally, all are responsible: the palm. Now open the encyclopedia: "Banana - genus of perennial grasses ..." The grass, then! Resident of central Russia, accustomed to bending "in three of perdition" to search for in the forest ant strawberries and cranberries, it is hard to imagine the banana grass to 3-4 m tall, stem which hang three hundred "berries" weighing poltsentnera. In addition, the diameter of the grass "tens of centimeters. It ends up on top of the panicle branchy oblong leaves (which is why the reaction of Europeans is unambiguous: the palm). From the rosette of leaves hanging from the top down sort of trunk half meter lengths. This inflorescence, which are fastened small bananchikov 250-300. Trunk properly called a "bunch", and what we buy and we call clusters, in fact, the brush of 4.7 fused fruits. This banana bunch - a set of brushes that are closely adjacent to each other. Bananas are known to mankind since antiquity. Homeland they are called tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, mainly India and China. In these countries, bananas, long considered sacred fruit, restoring force and feeding the mind. Some Indian pagodas, preserved from those times, have a roof, exactly reproduces the shape of a banana: a tribute to the plant. From India and China banana culture spread to Asia Minor. Later they began to grow on the east and west coasts of Africa. In the XVI century, delivered to the Canary Islands, Central and South America. However, the later appearance of the banana plantations in these countries does not prevent them to be world leaders in sales of this popular product: today, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama banana supply all of Europe. And if before the Europeans ate only Cuban varieties now on the market more fruit from Ecuador. How can collect bananas? As soon as the ovaries begin to form clusters on, it immediately pull a plastic bag so no one messed ripening fruit. And grow bananas 11 weeks under the hood, protected from tropical insects. Until full maturity is not getting through - they also carry on another continent! In underripe stage comes time to harvest. Nothing has changed over the centuries, as grandparents crop was collected, and today are doing: working, holding a long pole with a bolted on the end of a powerful sword, suited to the trunk and deftly cuts off a huge bunch. And as she rustles down ... That's wrong scared - long experience teaches: there is no better place for landing bunch than the shoulders and back of the second working, especially standing next to. Cheerfully depreciated, he drags himself as the yield on the warehouse. There's bunch will disassemble into small pieces, throw it in their tanks with special fluid for disinfection and duty to preserve, then catch will dry, wrapped in plastic, packed in branded boxes, and send a valuable cargo by sea, fewer aircraft to other countries. A "trunk" from which you cut the bunch, is no longer a tenant. Dries up. Grass it is grass. But from the rhizome of the land is already climbing the new "grass". True, they grow to maturity for a year. And they also bring only one banana bunches, but the upgrade process on the plantations is continuous. As continuous in a warm climate crop: some clusters are cut off, others - are maturing, and others - are fastened. In short, long live the eternal tropical summer! And may not be gone bananas at our table! Interesting Facts In the same weight of dried bananas, in comparison with fresh, contain 5 times more calories. Sprinter Linford Christie - Olympic Gold Medallist - before competition or training sessions include in your diet fried Plant. In East Africa over banana-kvashivayut and prepare from them a beer.