Plantains

Back to Recipe Back to Cookbook =Scientific Name: //Musa Paradisiaca// Common Name: Plantain=

The part of the plant that is used is the fruit or plantain.
=Five Interesting Facts:= =Section G:= ===There are other uses for the plantain than eating, for example plantains could also be used as biofuels. After you are done eating the fruit, you can take the peel, and instead of throwing it away, you can use to make energy.===
 * 1) ===Plantains are naturally radioactive.===
 * 2) ===Commercial plantains are perfect clones of one another and are all grown in the same general area.===
 * 3) ===There are 1000 different types of plantains and bananas.===
 * 4) ===Uganda has the highest average of consumption of bananas and plantains per person in the world.===
 * 5) ===Bananas and plantains are the only fruit to contain amino acid, tryptophan, and vitamin B6 which helps make serotonin, the natural chemical that alleviates mental depression.===