Happy fruit-Banana

Banana (Latin name: Musa nana Lour.) plants of the genus Musa in the family Musa, widely cultivated in tropical areas. Bananas are fragrant and nutrient-rich plants with large herbaceous plants that grow from rhizomes and form false stems 3 to 6 meters (10 to 20 feet) high from the lower leaf sheath. Leaves oblong to elliptic, some 3 to 3.5 m (10 to 11.5 ft) long, 65 cm (26 in) wide, with 10 to 20 clustered stem tips. Spikelets pendulous, drawn from the tip of false rod, flowers many, light yellow;  Fruit inflorescence curved, bearing 10 ~ 20 clusters, about 50 ~ 150. The plants bear fruit and die, and the suckers that grow from the rhizomes continue to reproduce. Each plant may live for many years. Native to tropical and subtropical areas of southeast Asia.

Nutritional value

Bananas are high in calories and are a staple food in some tropical regions.  Banana pulp nutritional value is quite high, in addition, also contain a variety of microelements and vitamins. Among them, vitamin A can promote growth, enhance resistance to disease, is necessary to maintain normal fertility and vision;Thiamine can resist beriberi, promote appetite, help digestion, protect the nervous system;Riboflavin can promote normal growth and development of the human body. Banana in addition to stable serotonin and melatonin, it also contains magnesium elements can have the effect of muscle relaxation, often work pressure is bigger friends can eat more. 

Banana is one of the most popular fruits with sweet and smooth flesh.  Europeans call it "happy fruit" because it can relieve depression, and creative cultural fruits have emerged on the basis of bananas to help people create happiness.

Bananas Extracts do the following

1. Prevent constipation: Bananas are rich in pectin in dietary fiber, which can promote peristalsis and smooth defecation.

2. Cancer prevention: Bananas have the effect of improving immunity and preventing cancer.

3. Prevention of cardiovascular diseases: A banana contains potassium 400 mg, potassium can maintain the coordination of normal myocardial contraction, can make the neuromuscular excitability maintain normal, so that the myocardial contraction and diastolic function coordination, so as to maintain blood pressure stability and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

4. Prevent gout: Banana contains potassium, which helps reduce the precipitation of uric acid crystals in the joints and helps the human body to excrete uric acid.

5.Alleviate eye discomfort: Potassium can help the human body to discharge these excess salts, so that potassium and sodium balance, alleviate the symptoms of eye discomfort. Banana carotene, can relieve eye fatigue to a certain extent, avoid premature aging eyes.

6.Prevention and control of stomach and duodenal ulcer: Banana contains a 5-hydroxytryptamine chemical substances, can relieve gastric acid stimulation of gastric mucosa, promote the growth and reproduction of mucosal cells, so as to repair all kinds of ulcer damage, prevention of gastric ulcer.

7.Prevention and treatment of hypokalemia: Dementia prevention.