We may joke about how plantains make us stupid, but the reality is that we absolutely love our plantains, and youll be hardpressed to find a dominican who doesnt love them cubans and puerto ricans too bananas vs. The most popular cooking banana variety in sri lanka is, of course, the alu kehel. Whats the difference between bananas and plantains. Meat and dairy products have a useful role in a healthy diet. The origin and development of banana and plantain cultivation.
The different varieties are characterized by wide differences in peel color and thickness, flavor, fruit size, and resistance to disease. The french plantains also occur in indonesia and the islands of the pacific. Bananas are the fun, mellow, and sweet popularity queen, consumed by americans more than any other fruit. Bananas and plantains are a staple food for more than 400 million people in the developing countries of south america, southeast asia, and africa and are also a key commodity in. Plantains, on the other hand, are a bit harder to get to know, showing their sweet side only after reach ripe old age. They are very hardy herbs, and can grow in any sunny spot, even in poor soil. Plantains are similar to the common banana in shape and texture, but are wider with lower sugar content. Ground ivy, a common lawn weed, goes by a number of names. Previous study on consumption pattern reported that plantain and banana are consumed in different forms including boiling. Tundan cebu, turdan tagalog, cantong misamis oriental, pisang rastali malaysia, pisang raja indonesia, kluai nam thailand, chuoi goong vietnam, silk fig west indies also very common around manila and said to be the most common of the dessert varieties all around the philippines, latundan is said to have been introduced from india by a french clergyman. Both types grow in india, africa, egypt, and tropical america. The following is a list of banana cultivars and the groups into which they are classified. A total of 121 farmernamed banana and plantain varieties 83. French types like most bananas, the french plantain types grow best in tropical lowlands, which are typically hot and wet.
Roasted fish, chicken or meat kebab are sometimes served. Both varieties ive shown you so far are called narrowleaf plantain or plantago lanceolata. There are different types of plants based on their habitat, region of growth and climate adaptations. List of banana varieties article about list of banana. Processing and food uses of bananas and plantains in. Did you know that not all plantains are the same noubess.
Archived from the original pdf on december 2, 2007. Go bananas with these 12 varieties worth seeking out in. Botanical exploration of this area led to many more species being named, along with subspecies and. Pdf diversity of local varieties of banana and plantain cultivated in. Plantain of different varieties is collected from different parts of south india. The rest, over 85% of production, is made up of a wide range of banana and plantain varieties grown by peasant farmers or smallholders and their families. Plantain diseases and pests, description, uses, propagation. They can further be classified based on other factors like their life span, physical appearance, reproduction, presence of flowers, food requirement, etc. The term plantain can refer to all the banana cultivars which are normally eaten after cooking, rather than raw see cooking banana, or it can refer to members of other subgroups of musa cultivars, such as the pacific plantains. In such informal economies production figures can only be estimates. Pvacs among cultivars of musa fruits differ more than 200fold, ranging from 0. Although considered a weed, ground ivy has a pretty flower and, when you mow this weed, it gives off a pleasing aroma. This study aims to utilize peel from nendran variety the main byproduct of banana chips industry to develop high fibre cookies with enhanced bioactive content.
Paper open access functional properties of ripe plantain. Peeled plantains cut into thick slices can be fried, then smashed lightly and refried again. In nigeria the areas with the highest number of plantain plantation include. Saturated fats these are mainly found in animal products such as the fat on meat, in lard, and the fat in dairy products such as butter, fullcream milk, etc. Banana cultivar names and synonyms in southeast asia. Another common problem confronting banana taxonomists and horticulturists in southeast asia is the presence of numerous cultivar names and synonyms in different languages and dialects of the region. Our study was carried out in order to list the varieties of bananas and plantains mostly used by housewives and restaurant dealers and to describe the various culinary preparations used for their. A growing industry, mainly plantain chips, is believed to be responsible for the high demand being experienced now in the country. In most cases, the same cultivars are known by different names in different. The banana fruit botanically a berry is a staple food in the tropics and is used in many forms, raw or cooked, and grown in many varieties. Plantain cultivar nendran is popular as a staple food in many parts of india and deep fried chips made from raw matured nendran are one of the popular snack items in india. Types of packaging materials industrial materials these materials have been developed over the last 200300 years and are the main types of packaging used by smallscale food processors. The types of banana varieties used for j uice production are the same as those used for beer production as reveled by 96. Parents of the cultivated types are musa acuminata and musa balbisiana, two wild species which are usually seedy.
Some of them are variations on our current everyday favourite and some taste completely different. Europeans and asians in the region, other types have also risen to prominence including varieties in the cavendish subgroup, mysore. Grass growing between the plantains is not suitable as a mulch source because it competes with the. Tundan cebu, turdan tagalog, cantong misamis oriental, pisang rastali malaysia, pisang raja indonesia, kluai nam thailand, chuoi goong vietnam, silk fig west indies also very common around manila and said to be the most common of the dessert varieties all around the philippines, latundan is said to have been introduced from india by a french clergyman, letondal. Plantain plants do best in loamy soil, the soil should contain enough organic matter with moderate moisture content.
Furthermore, over a thousand different types of cultivars of bananas and plantains are recognized today. Most evidence of the potential of these plants lies in the southern hemisphere, where modern varieties of both forage chicory and plantain have been developed. Plantain is also a common name for plants of the genus plantago q. Providing roughly 180 calories, plantain can be a filling and healthy. Because of their different levels of starch and sugar, the two fruits also behave quite differently when cooked. Dried bananas are eaten as banana figs and inferior fruits serve as a stock feed. Proximate analysis indicated that peels are rich in total. Growing up, i remember hearing the different names and seeing the different shapes of plantains and thought that it would be great to share a little bit of knowledge about this staple vegetable and sometimes referred to fruit. Proximate composition and consumption pattern of plantain and cookingbanana m. True plantains are a group of cultivars of the genus musa bananas and plantains placed in the plantain subgroup of the aab genome group. This is in addition to slightly lower levels of iron and magnesium. Eating unripe, green and barely yellow plantains or bananas or plantains cooked with too much fat or spices is not good for gastritis and is likely to give you a stomach ache. A popular method of fixing plantains is to fry them. A reference manual on plantain cultivation in west africa.
Dessert bananas are the fourth most important fruit crop in the world after grapes, citrus fruits, and apples. Proximate composition and consumption pattern of plantain. Pdf banana and plantain are popular fruits considered as major staple foods, and provide significant income to farming communities. This study buttresses the nutritional value of locally available plantain and cookingbanana varieties at both ripe and unripe stages. There are many food uses of these crops relative to the eating habits of consumers.
Pdf nutritive value of three varieties of banana and. Fried ripe plantain or aloko in cote divoire, redred in ghana and dodo in nigeria is a meal well cherished by children and in restaurant. All the samples are analysed in dried powder form by dry technique to remove using kbr as matrix and kscn as solution. This colouring of the stem and petioles is exactly the same in the three varieties, and is more or less pronounced according to exposurb to the sun. Also known as burro, these are thick fruits with an angular shape and salmontinted flesh. Musa sapientum is an herbaceous perennial belonging to the family musaceae. A total of 121 farmer named banana and plantain varieties 83. Plantains are generally more starchy, and a bit drier, than other varieties such as the cavendish, a popular eating banana that is widely grown on a commercial scale. Plantains, unlike the common sweet banana, are usually cooked or processed in some way and not eaten raw. Cultivated bananas are almost always seedless parthenocarpic and hence sterile, so they are propagated vegetatively cloned.
Fei banana cultivars have a host of common names in dif. Unlike the banana, considered a fruit or desert item, people in parts of south america, africa, southern india and especially in the caribbean usually grill or fry the plantain and serve it as a staple food. These are either for consumption by them and their dependants or traded locally. Almost all modern cultivated varieties cultivars of edible bananas and plantains are hybrids and polyploids of two wild, seeded banana species, musa acuminata and musa balbisiana. In southern cameroon, bananas and plantains musa play an important role in the populations diet. Plantains and bananas are related, but its best not to confuse the two. Illustrated guide to the identification of banana varieties in.
Seasoning can be sweet, like butter and sugar, or savory, like garlic butter. Functional properties of ripe plantain musa spp flour from different varieties to cite this article. Two groups of plantains are thought to have a common origin. There are three different types of banana suckers which are produced by the mother plant. The availability of glass, metal or plastic containers varies considerably in different countries, and. A banana will always be a banana whether green or yellow.
In addition to all the delightful dessert banana varieties that grow in sri lanka, this island is also home to a number of cooking banana varieties or plantains. Plantain peel a potential source of antioxidant dietary. They are just one of the over 200 varieties of plantain that grow all over the world. Edo, delta, cross river, ekiti, ogun, and other states in the tropics. A green plantain or a sweet plantain is simply a plantain.
In other regions, such as southeast asia, many more kinds of banana are grown and. An averagesized plantain provides a number of critical nutrients for overall health, including 2 grams of protein and 3. And now for a close look at the flowers on a single spike. And with many of these more exotic bananas, it pays to be. Using chicory and plantain in beef and sheep systems. Plantains are distinguished from bananas by their fruit which, although morphologically very similar to bananas, are actually longer, firmer and possess a higher starch content and thicker skin than their sweeter relative. Banana and plantain are important food crops for millions of people worldwide. For instance, it is also called gill, gillovertheground and creeping charlie. There are currently about 116 different cultivars of plantain, which belong to the three main categories of. Notice the flower spikes arising from the basal rosette.
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