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Benefits of Banana Fruit

Written By Gagak on Thursday, May 30, 2013 | 4:06 AM

Everyone of course knows nothing bananas, because the fruit is easily obtained, whether in traditional or modern, mini market and others. This fruit of the kind that easily grown. But behind it all was bananas have benefits for human health. In addition to providing nutritional contribution higher than apples, bananas can also provide energy reserves quickly if needed, including the brain when experiencing fatigue.

Tropical fruit
There are reports that the banana came from Southeast Asia, Brazil, and India. In Southeast Asia, the banana is believed to originate from Peninsular Malaysia and the Philippines. Bananas have long been grown in India, which since 500 BC, and spread to the Pacific region.

Bananas thrive in the humid tropics, especially in the lowlands. Therefore, in the area of ​​rain fell evenly throughout the year, banana production can take place regardless of the season. Not surprisingly, Indonesia, Pacific Islands, and Brazil known as the banana exporting countries. However, Indonesia is not included in the 15 largest countries in the world who eat bananas. Society in the countries of Africa and Latin America are known to be high eating bananas every year.

Snack of bananas are very popular for people in urban and rural areas. Various types of banana snacks are quite popular among the other chips from Lampung, sale (London), molen (Bogor), and epe (Makassar).

By way of consumption, bananas are grouped into two categories, namely banana and plantain. Banana is a banana that is more often consumed as fresh as ripe fruit, eg banana, milk, king, a thousand, and sunripe. Plantain bananas are consumed after being fried, boiled, baked, or dikolak, such as bananas kepok, Siamese, cotton, horns, and uli.

Nutrient content
Bananas have a very good nutrient content, among other things, energy is high compared with other fruits. Bananas are rich in minerals such as potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, and calcium. Bananas also contain vitamins, namely C, B complex, B6, and serotonin is active as a neurotransmitter in the smooth functioning of the brain.

Energy
Energy value of bananas around 136 calories for every 100 grams, which as a whole comes from carbohydrates. Energy value of banana twice higher than apples. Apples with the same weight (100 grams) contains only 54 calories.

Carbohydrates provide energy bananas slightly slower than with sugar and syrup, but faster than rice, biscuits, and a type of bread. Energy content of bananas is instant energy, which is readily available in a short time, making it useful in providing instantaneous calorie needs. However, the banana is a complex carbohydrate carbohydrates moderate and available in stages, so as to provide energy in a time not too fast. Carbohydrate reserves bananas are excellent energy use and can be quickly made available to the body. Therefore, many athletes during pauses or breaks eating bananas as an energy reserve.

Sugar banana is a fruit sugar, is composed of fructose which has a lower glycemic index than glucose, so it's pretty good as a store of energy for a little more slowly metabolized. After working hard or think, always arise drowsiness. This situation is a sign of the brain is deprived of energy, so that the biological activity also declined. To carry out its activities, the brain needs energy in the form of glucose. Blood glucose is vital for the brain to function properly, such as expressed in the ability of memory. Glucose is mainly derived from the brain blood circulation due to glycogen as glucose reserves are very limited existence.

Blood glucose is mainly derived from carbohydrate food intake. Banana is the best alternative for providing energy in times of rest or pause, when the brain is rapidly available energy needed for biological activity. However, the content of protein and fat banana was not good and is very low, at only 2.3 percent and 0.13 percent. However, the fat and protein content of bananas are still higher than the apple, which is only 0.3 percent. Therefore, do not be afraid of obesity despite eating bananas in large quantities.

Minerals and Vitamins
Bananas are rich in minerals such as potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, and iron. When compared with other types of plant foods, mineral bananas, especially iron, is almost entirely (100 percent) can be absorbed by the body. Based on dry weight, iron content reaches bananas 2 milligrams per 100 grams and 0.8 mg zinc. Compare with apples, which only contains 0.2 mg of iron and 0.1 mg of zinc for weight 100 grams.

Bananas are very high vitamin content, especially pro-vitamin A, beta-carotene that is, by 45 mg per 100 grams of dry weight, while the apple is only 15 mg. Bananas also contain B vitamins, namely thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and vitamin B6 (piridoxin). B6 bananas quite high, amounting to 0.5 mg per 100 grams. In addition to functioning as a coenzyme for several reactions in metabolism, vitamin B6 plays a role in synthetic and protein metabolism, particularly serotonin. Serotonin is believed to play an active role as a neurotransmitter in the smooth functioning of the brain. Vitamin B6 also plays a role in the metabolism of energy derived from carbohydrates. The role of vitamin B6 clearly supports the availability of energy for the brain to daily activities.


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