Many people confuse bananas and plantains, because of their appearance is really not too good to distinguish.
Bananas are good for one's eyes and can cure eye fatigue. Bananas are also a brain fruit, bananas contain a can help the human brain to produce 5-hydroxytryptophan substances, have to make the mood become peaceful, and can even reduce the role of pain. The United States West Virginia University has a doctor, found a banana peel is the cure for itchy skin medicine. He has cured more than 200 cases of skin disease patients with banana peels. We can usually dry the banana peel, research powder to use.
Because bananas are cold, people with cold spleen and stomach, eat less bananas, or steam bananas to eat. Bananas should not be eaten on an empty stomach.
Bananas are sweet and cold in nature, not beneficial to people, more food to move the cold.
Difference between banana and plantain
Banana and plantain belong to the plantain family plantain genus, is a family of two varieties, can be distinguished from the appearance, color and taste.
(1) shape: banana shape curved crescent-shaped, short stalk, the skin has five to six pike; banana's two ends of the thinner, thicker in the middle, one side of the slightly flat, the other side is slightly curved, was rounded, its stalk is longer, there are three prongs on the fruit skin.
(2) color: bananas are green when not ripe, ripe to yellow, and with brown spots, commonly known as plum blossom points, flesh is yellowish-white, cross-section nearly round; plantain rind is grayish-yellow, ripe without plum blossom points, flesh is creamy-white, cross-section of the oblate spheres.
(3) taste: bananas have a strong aroma and sweet flavor; the taste of plantain is sweet, but the aftertaste is acidic, and its food value is lower than bananas].