Banana Nutrition

Banana :

The banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry– produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains, in contrast to dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe.

The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible parthenocarpic (seedless) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa × paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name Musa sapientum is no longer used.

Banana Nutrition :

Vitamins :

• Vitamin A-144IU
• Vitamin C-19.6mg
• Vitamin E-0.2mg
• Vitamin K-1.1mcg
• Thiamin-0.1mg
• Riboflavin-0.2mg
• Niacin-1.5mg
• Vitamin B6-0.8mg
• Folate-45.0mcg
• Vitamin B12-0.0mcg
• Pantothenic Acid-0.8mg
• Choline-22.0mg
• Betaine-0.2mg

Minerals:

• Calcium-11.3mg
• Iron-0.6mg
• Magnesium-60.8mg
• Phosphorus-49.5mg
• Potassium-806mg
• Sodium-2.3mg
• Zinc-0.3mg 
• Copper-0.2mg 
• Manganese-0.6mg
• Selenium-2.3mcg
• Fluoride-5.0mcg

Fats & Fatty Acids

• Total Fat-0.7g , 
• Saturated Fat-0.3g , 
• Monounsaturated Fat-0.1g , 
• Polyunsaturated Fat-0.2g , 
• Total Omega-3 fatty acids-60.8mg
• Total Omega-6 fatty acids-103mg

Carbohydrates

• Total Carbohydrate-51.4g
• Dietary Fiber-5.9g 
• Starch-12.1g 
• Sugars-27.5g 
• Sucrose-5377mg 
• Glucose-11204mg 
• Fructose-10912mg
• Lactose-0.0mg
• Maltose-22.5mg  
• Galactose-0.0mg

Calorie

• Calories-837 kJ
• From Carbohydrate-779 kJ
• From Fat-26.0 kJ
• From Protein-34.3 kJ 
• From Alcohol-0.0 kJ

Protein & Amino Acids

• Protein-2.5g
• Tryptophan-20.2mg
• Threonine-63.0mg
• Isoleucine-63.0mg
• Leucine-153mg
• Lysine-112mg
• Methionine-18.0mg
• Cystine-20.2mg 
• Phenylalanine-110mg
• Tyrosine-20.2mg
• Valine-106mg
• Arginine-110mg
• Histidine-173mg
• Alanine-90.0mg
• Aspartic acid-279mg
• Glutamic acid-342mg
• Glycine-85.5mg
• Proline-63.0mg 
• Serine-90.0mg

Other

• Alcohol-0.0g
• Water-169g 
• Ash-1.8g
• Caffeine-0.0mg 
• Theobromine-0.0mg 
• Cholesterol-0.0mg0% 
• Phytosterols-36.0mg

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