<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Bananas have enormous health benefits as a food for both animals and humans. They have been used as a complimentary medicine to treat pathological conditions since ancient times. Recently, there has been increased interest in the scientific validity of the beneficial effects of bananas in alleviating and treating disease conditions including, ulcers, infections, diabetes, diarrhea, colitis and blood pressure. Herein, we write on the potential therapeutic and functional benefits of certain species of bananas when consumed green as well as considering the properties of extracts from the non-fruit parts of the plant. We conclude that green bananas appear to deliver an array of health and therapeutic benefits</p></abstract>

Bananas have enormous health benefits as a food for both animals and humans. They have been used as a complimentary medicine to treat pathological conditions since ancient times. Recently, there has been increased interest in the scientific validity of the beneficial effects of bananas in alleviating and treating disease conditions including, ulcers, infections, diabetes, diarrhea, colitis and blood pressure. Herein, we write on the potential therapeutic and functional benefits of certain species of bananas when consumed green as well as considering the properties of extracts from the non-fruit parts of the plant. We conclude that green bananas appear to deliver an array of health and therapeutic benefits

Let’s Go Bananas! Green Bananas and their Health Benefits

Centre for Chronic Disease, College of Health and Biomedicine

PRILOZI

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Bananas have enormous health benefits as a food for both animals and humans. They have been used as a complimentary medicine to treat pathological conditions...

Let’s Go Bananas! Green Bananas and their Health Benefits

Published Online: Oct 07, 2017

Page range: 147 - 151

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/prilozi-2017-0033

Keywords
Banana, Green banana, Health, Musa paradisiacal, Nutrition

© 2017 Vasso Apostolopoulos et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Let’s Go Bananas! Green Bananas and their Health Benefits

Published Online: Oct 07, 2017

Page range: 147 - 151

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/prilozi-2017-0033

KeywordsBanana, Green banana, Health, Musa paradisiacal, Nutrition

© 2017 Vasso Apostolopoulos et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Banana, Green banana, Health, Musa paradisiacal, Nutrition