{"id":2516,"date":"2016-02-20T07:17:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T07:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.expressgiftservice.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2020-07-08T10:01:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T10:01:03","slug":"some-interesting-facts-about-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expressgiftservice.co.uk\/blog\/some-interesting-facts-about-bananas\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Interesting Facts about Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Banana is the most loved fruit type in the world.\u00a0 Unlike popular perception, the banana is not a tree, but a herb that grows high even till 15 m. There are almost a thousand varieties of bananas in the world with over 50 sub-types.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bananas are cultivated in over 150 countries and mostly for domestic consumption. Bananas that are locally consumed have a huge part to play in food security in tropical countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bananas are rich in nutrients and antioxidants. Here are a few health benefits of bananas, which you can keep in mind while creating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expressgiftservice.co.uk\/send-flowers-and-gifts-to-UK\/fruit-basket-delivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>fruit<\/strong> <strong>baskets<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Rich in Potassium and Magnesium: Potassium improves health of heart and counters high blood pressure.<\/li>\n<li>Rich in pectin, a type of fibre: Helps in digestion and excretion.<\/li>\n<li>Rich in Vitamins C, A and B6. Vitamin B6 helps prevent diabetes, makes the nervous and immune system strong and aids in weight loss. Vitamin A helps improve health of eyes. Vitamin C boosts immunity.<\/li>\n<li>Free of cholesterol, sodium and fat.<\/li>\n<li>Rich in antioxidants that counter harmful free radicals in body. They help fight cancer.<\/li>\n<li>Rich in Tryptophans: These produce serotonin, which improves mood and counters depression.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from these, here are some interesting facts about bananas:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Bananas might have been the first fruit to be cultivated going back to as early as 8000 BC.<\/li>\n<li>On an average, 100 bananas are consumed on an average by a person in UK.<\/li>\n<li>The name banana comes from the Arabic word- \u2018Banan\u2019 meaning finger.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The trunk of a banana is not made of wood but of overlapping leaves.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Banana skin can be used to treat itchy skin for a mosquito bite.<\/li>\n<li>Bananas are produced in sub-tropical and tropical areas of Asia, Africa and the Americas.<\/li>\n<li>Banana is classified as a perennial herb and the fruit as a berry.<\/li>\n<li>Almost all bananas are derived from the type called as Cavendish bananas, native to South East Asia.<\/li>\n<li>Cavendish replaced a variety called as Gros Michel, which was made extinct by fungal infection.<\/li>\n<li>Gros Michel was tastier, larger and had better shelf life than the Cavendish variety.<\/li>\n<li>Some botanists believe that the Cavendish is headed for the same fate as the Gros Michel, in the near future.<\/li>\n<li>A medium sized banana contains around 95 calories. It provides fats but sustained boost of energy in an easily digestible, nutritious and natural form lacking cholesterol and sodium.<\/li>\n<li>Fyffes, the first British suppliers of bananas got its first banana consignment 124 years ago (in 1888).<\/li>\n<li>A banana stem is made of \u2018hands\u2019, consisting of 10 &#8211; 20 bananas. On splitting a hand, bananas become \u2018clusters\u2019 usually made of 3-8 bananas.<\/li>\n<li>Shoes can be polished using inside of banana peel.<\/li>\n<li>Wild bananas grow all over South East Asia but many are inedible.<\/li>\n<li>Most bananas are consumed domestically. Only 15% is kept for export, globally.<\/li>\n<li>Bananas make for excellent <strong>fruit gifts UK<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Plantains refer to raw bananas, used for cooking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are some interesting facts about bananas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banana is the most loved fruit type in the world.\u00a0 Unlike popular perception, the banana is not a tree, but a herb that grows high even till 15 m. There are almost a thousand varieties of bananas in the world with over 50 sub-types. 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