Fruits
Banana
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. their 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'.
