Banana

Musa acuminata

fruit · prebiotic

Long fruits in bunches from a giant herb, seedless in dessert varieties.

Origin

Southeast Asia

Season (United States)

all year round · grows in your region

Preparation

The peel is eaten cooked in several cuisines of Asia and Latin America — organic preferably: other bananas get fungicides after harvest. Green, its starch is resistant and feeds the flora; ripe, it has turned into sugar. Two rather different foods in the same skin.

Molecules

Vitamin B6 · PotassiumIn small amounts, not counted Fructans (inulin, FOS) · Magnesium · Tryptophan · Vitamin B8 (biotin)

Did you know?

A wild banana holds 15 to 62 seeds; ours keep only tiny, sterile ones.