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BANANA NUTRTITONAL FACTS AND HEALTH BENEFITS

BANANA NUTRITIONAL FACTS AND HEALTH BENEFITS When we dig into our history it tells us How plants have served as the primary source of food to human beings. We all shall stand astonished about the versatile nutritional value they hold. Likewise here also we are going to discuss the various nutritional food derivatives we have from a single Banana plant or tree.   Banana plant as a whole serves useful to humans in all its available forms. From its stem, flower, leaf, and fruit each part holds a high nutritional value. In the Journal of pharmacognosy and phytochemistry 1(3), 51-63, 2012 by KP Sampath Kumar, Debjit Bhowmik, M Umadevi stated that all parts of banana plant have medicinal applications; the flowers in bronchitis and dysentery and ulcers; flowers are given to diabetics; the astringent plant sap in cases of hysteria, epilepsy, leprosy, fevers, hemorrhages, acute dysentery, and diarrhea and it is applied to hemorrhoids, insects, and other string bites.   In another study...