Health Benefits of Bananas for Human
By Yanti
Health Benefits of Bananas
Banana is a tropical plant that originated from the South Asian, and Southeast Asian, and has spread to many countries around the world, and now India, Philippines, China, Ecuador, Brazil, and Indonesia are the world’s largest banana producer. Banana plants derived from the herbaceous plants of the genus musa with a variety of types, and sizes, and there are many health benefits of bananas for human because of nutrients contained in banana fruits, as well as for other human function.
Bananas plants have a broad leaf, and water resistant. Banana leaf use in many countries, especially Southeast Asian, South Asian as in Indonesia, as well as south India is often used as a natural dish to eat, and even used for wrapping food to be grilled or steamed, because the banana leaf has a fluid that protects the food from the steam or combustion process so that the food in banana leaves still feel fine.
Bananas grow from pseudostem. Each pseudostem usually produces a single inflorescence consisting of several layers (up to 20 layers). This pseudostem of banana in several states of Southeast and South Asian has exploited people for food either directly, steamed, or cooked in soup. Banana stem is actually a pseudostem that grows to a size of about 6 to 7.6 meters that grows from a tuber of bananas. And a pseudostem can produce a single bunch of bananas. Pseudostem will die after fruiting, but the banana branch could be developed from the base of the plant.
Ripe bananas are generally yellow, while that is still raw in general green, and ripe bananas peeled skin after having a soft texture, and tastes sweet to eat, and most people eat bananas fruit directly, but there are also who ate banana fruits in other forms such as steamed, fried, baked, banana chips, banana compote, and some even eat a banana with combined with other ingredients like banana ice cream, banana pancakes, and banana cake.
Banana nutrition
In the body of bananas there are many nutrients that benefit the health of the human body, the nutrients contained in fruit, bananas, among others, are carbohydrates, sugars, dietary fiber, protein, vitamins A, B complex, C, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus , potassium, and zinc.
Health Benefits of Bananas
Bananas in addition to consumption has also been exploited for human purposes such as utilizing banana fiber for paper making bananas or textiles that have a high quality. For example Japan has been using banana plants to make clothing and other household purposes since long time. Nepal tapped banana fiber for the manufacture of carpet that has a beautiful texture like silk, and in southern Tamil Nadu have been using banana stems to be a fine thread in a wreath-making, while for the health of the body, bananas fruit or banana plants have many benefits, some health benefits of bananas are as follows:
1. Anemia
High content of iron in banana fruit is useful to stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood so it can be used to overcome anemia
2. High blood pressure
High potassium content and low salt is a good variation to prevent and treat high blood pressure
3. Concentration
High calcium content in bananas is beneficial to increase the ability to concentrate so it is advisable for students to eat a banana
4. Depression
Protein content of tryptophan in bananas will be converted into serotonin, which can improve mood, more relaxed, and increases the feeling of happiness, so that it can help to relieve depression experienced by a person
5. Stomach acid
Bananas are mixed with liquid milk beneficial to neutralize high stomach acid
6. Source of power
Natural sugar content in bananas is useful for power sources for the formation of the skin, eliminating fatigue, and ease muscle work.
7. Lever
For patients with liver illness are encouraged to eat 2 bananas per day plus one tablespoon of honey because it can increase energy and increase appetite.
8. Remove acne
One way to eliminate acne by using a banana with honey and a little milk, the way the mixture was applied to the face for 30 to 40 minutes, then rinsed with warm water and then with cold water. Do these activities continuously for 2 weeks and you will feel the results.
9. Sperm
Sufficient number of sperm is one factor that a wife can get pregnant, and for people who have a sperm count of less then one natural way to increase the fertility of sperm by eating bananas on a regular basis
10. Constipation
The high fiber content in bananas helps to normalize digestion and helps overcome constipation experienced by someone so it is good for diet.
11. Smoke
For people who want to quit smoking then it could use bananas, because the content vitamin A, B6, B12, C, potassium and magnesium in bananas helps the body to recover from the toxic effects caused by nicotine from cigarette.
12. Expectant mother
The content of folic acid is high in fruit, bananas helpful for preventing the occurrence of congenital defects as well as to the perfection of babies conceived fetus by a pregnant woman,
13. Body temperature
Other health benefit of banana is to help lower the temperature inside a pregnant mother’s womb and helps the baby to be born with temperature is not high because the effect of banana as a food cooler that improves physical and emotional condition of pregnant women
14. Burn
In addition to bananas fruits, other parts of the banana also has other benefits such as health benefits of banana is a banana leaf which is useful for treating burns how to use a mixture of banana leaf ash with coconut oil can be used to cool the skin and relieve burns by applying the mixture to parts of the body that suffered burns.
With any number of health benefits of bananas like the above information, so if you want to make healthy lifestyle by trying to eat healthy foods and then make a banana as one of the food consumed on a regular basis is a wise thing to do.
