Bananas are fragrant, nutritious, and harvestable all year round. They are also valued in temperate regions. The plant is a large herb, which is emitted from the rhizome and forms a 3 to 6 meter (10 to 20 feet) high false stem from the lower part of the leaf sheath; the leaves are oblong to elliptic and some are as long as 3 to 3.5 meters (10 ~ 11.5 feet), width 65 cm (26 inches), 10 to 20 clustered stem tops. The spikes are large, and they are drawn from the top of the dummy rods. The flowers are mostly light yellow; the fruit sequence is bent and the result is 10 to 20 strings, about 50 to 150 pieces. After the plant has died, the roots that grow from the rhizome continue to multiply, and each plant can live for many years.
Bananas are very effective for weight loss because of its low calorie content and rich dietary fiber content. The bananas are very sweet, so people will think that the calories must be very high. Actually it is not. The calories of a banana (about 100 grams net weight) is only 87 calories, compared with the amount of white rice for a meal (150 g 220 calories) , About half of the low calories.
Bananas in the human body can help the brain to create a chemical composition - serotonin, which stimulates the nervous system, giving people a signal of joy, calm and drowsiness, and even analgesic effects. Therefore, bananas are also known as "happy food." American medical experts have found that eating bananas can prevent high blood pressure, because bananas can provide more potassium ions that can lower blood pressure, and have the effect of resisting the pressure increase of sodium ions and damaging blood vessels. They also believe that if people lack potassium, they will experience dizziness, general weakness, and arrhythmia. Because bananas contain a variety of nutrients, and the sodium content is low, and does not contain cholesterol, after eating, it can supply all kinds of nutrients in the body without making people fat. Therefore, regular bananas are not only beneficial to the brain, prevent nerve fatigue, but also have a role in lungs, cough, and constipation.
From a nutritional point of view, bananas are beneficial fruits rich in starch, (it is not appropriate to eat, easy to gain weight) and from the perspective of Chinese medicine to analyze, bananas are sweet and cold, can clear the intestine, promote gastrointestinal motility, but the spleen diarrhea are not suitable . There is always a reasonable explanation for everything, and bananas are cold. According to the principle of “the heat is coldâ€, it is most suitable for people with hot heat. Hemorrhoids bleeding, due to heat caused by fetal movement disturbed, can eat banana meat.
However, because bananas are cold and physically deficient, they are better off avoiding them. For example, cold stomach (poor pale bloating), Deficiency (diarrhea, easy to faint), nephritis (also Deficiency), pregnancy swollen feet, it is best not to eat raw bananas. Unless banana meat is cooked, coldness can be reduced before eating. As for cold coughs, bananas should not be eaten, but steaming the bananas before eating is acceptable.
Folk prescriptions are more useful for stewing rock sugar with bananas to heal cough, and boiled wine with bananas as a therapeutic. Modern medicine suggests that the use of bananas can cure high blood pressure, because it is rich in potassium, can balance the adverse effects of sodium, and promote cell and tissue growth. Constipation can be treated with bananas because it promotes gastrointestinal motility.
The most interesting thing is that German researchers said that using bananas can cure depression and emotional anxiety because it can promote the secretion of endorphins in the brain.
In short, people with hot body can have a banana every day, but if you are afraid of bananas, you can eat the banana pulp after cooking it.