Bananas Contain three natural sugars
- sucrose, fructose and glucose
combined with fiber. This unique
tropical fruit is extremely
high in potassium yet low in salt.
The banana is full of proteins,
and the sugar provided gives a lot
of energy to those practicing sports
requiring endurance. Moreover, it
contains magnesium, selenium, iron,
a lot of vitamins, and is recommended
for salt-free diets because of its
low contents in sodium chloridium.
The banana plant is ...not a tree,
but a giant herb of the same family
as lilies, orchids and palms. There
are about 400 varieties of bananas.
The rhizome is planted and gives
a first shoot 3 or 4 weeks later.
After 9 to 10 months the inflorescence
from the foliated circlet has a
diameter that can be as large as
7 meters. Three days after that,
a bud hangs on the plant. On the
fifth day, the bud turns red and
starts opening. On the seventh day
the leafs who covered it are falling
down and finally two days later
you can already see the first banana
hands.The trunk of a banana plant
is made of sheaths of overlapping
leaves, tightly wrapped around each
other like stalks in a celery bunch.
The word banana is derivated from
the Arabic meaning 'finger'.
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