Benefits of Bananas - Everyone of course knows nothing bananas, because the fruit is easy to obtain, whether in traditional or modern, mini market and others. This one fruit of the kind that easily grown. But behind it all turns bananas have benefits for human health. In addition to providing nutritional contribution higher than apples, bananas can also provide energy reserves quickly if necessary, including when the brain fatigue.
Tropical fruit
There are reports that the banana came from Southeast Asia, Brazil, and India. In Southeast Asia, bananas originate from Peninsular Malaysia and the Philippines. Bananas have long been grown in India, which since 500 years before Christ, and spread to the Pacific region.
Bananas thrive in the humid tropics, particularly in the lowlands. Therefore, in the rain falls evenly throughout the year, banana production can take place without knowing the season. Not surprisingly, Indonesia, the Pacific Islands, and Brazil known as banana exporting countries. However, Indonesia is not included in the 15 largest countries in the world who eat bananas. Communities in the countries of Africa and Latin America are known to be high eating bananas every year.
Snacks of bananas is very popular for people in urban and rural areas. Various types of banana snacks are quite popular among the other chips from Lampung, sale (Dublin), molen (Bogor), and epe (Makassar).
By way of consumption, bananas are grouped into two categories, namely banana and plantain. Banana is a banana is more often consumed as fresh as ripe fruit, such as bananas, milk, king, a thousand, and sunripe. Plantain is a banana that is consumed after being fried, boiled, baked, or dikolak, such kepok bananas, Siamese, cotton, horns, and uli.
Nutrient content
Bananas have excellent nutritional value, such as providing high energy compared to 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 apple. 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. Carbohydrates banana is an excellent energy reserves to 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 fruit sugar, is composed of fructose has a lower glycemic index than glucose, so pretty well as energy storage for a little more slowly metabolized. After working hard or think, always be 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 requires 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. Bananas are the best alternative for providing energy in a moment 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 was 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 to other vegetable foods, bananas minerals, especially iron, is almost entirely (100 percent) can be absorbed by the body. Based on dry weight, banana iron content reaches 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 the weight of 100 grams.
Banana high vitamin content, especially the provitamin A beta-carotene which, at 45 mg per 100 grams 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, at 0.5 mg per 100 grams. In addition to functioning as a coenzyme for several reactions in metabolism, vitamin B6 plays a role in protein synthesis and 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 energy metabolism from carbohydrate. The role of vitamin B6 is clearly in favor of the availability of energy for the brain to daily activities.
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