BANANA AND PLANTAIN AS MEDICINAL FOOD

Abstract

Bananas are among the world’s leading food crops, after rice, wheat and maize. Banana is dessert fruit that its edible part is pulpy, firm to tender, free from seeds or pips, and has a characteristic flavour. Plantain is a cooking banana subgroup. Plantain resemble banana but are longer in length, have a thicker skin, and contain more starch. Most dessert banana cultivars in the world are AA or AAA, this last group includes almost all the cultivars sold to export market. Cooking bananas, often named plantains, are mostly AAB, ABB, or BBB