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Tuesday, February 15, 2022
IMPORTANT DATA SITE
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Banana terminology
- "Debelling" is cutting off the banana flower, called the "bell".
- A "finger" is a single banana fruit.
- A "finger stalk" is the stalk attaching the finger to the hand.
- A "hand" is a cluster of bananas from a single flower group at a node forming a section of the bunch because bananas grow in layers around the stalk.
- A "bunch" is the whole flowering stem (inflorescence), bearing hands, fruit clusters, of several fingers of fruit.
- So a bunch with nine layers of bananas is called a "nine hand bunch".
- When marketing bananas, a bunch is called a "stem".
Monday, February 14, 2022
THE URBAN BANANA
VIDEO LINK
The Banana & Human Diet Information
1. Bananas are a good source of dietary fibre, Vitamin C, vitamin A and potassium.
A banana may contain more potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, Vitamin A, thiamine, riboflavin, Niacin, and
[more] ascorbic acid than an apple!
2. Bananas with a high sugar content are usually eaten raw.
Bananas with high starch content (plantains), are usually cooked.
3. Banana leaves can be used for wrapping fish, meat or chicken to be steamed, poached, grilled or barbecued. [The stems are also a good source of starch and thus a good background ingredient for curries etc.]
The stems and leaves can be used for plates, wrapping, umbrellas and cattle feed [and animal fodder].
4. The fibres can be used to make a batik cloth [and in a range of other textile applications].
5. The banana blossom (banana inflorescence), can be eaten after peeling off the outer leaves.
It can be cooked in curries or soups.
The male banana flower can be boiled and eaten as a vegetable.
However, depending on the variety, the flower may have too high oxalic content and so are too astringent for most people.
6. Simple Banana Bread
Cream together in a bowl 113 g softened, butter, 1 cup sugar or coconut sugar, 3 eggs.
Add 3 very ripe large mashed bananas.
Sift together the following dry ingredient: 2 cups flour, 1 tsp. baking soda, 1/2 tsp. baking powder, 1.2 tsp. salt.
Then add to the creamed mixture alternately with 3 tsp., buttermilk and 1/2 tsp. vanilla.
Stir until just combined.
Fold in the 1/2 cup chopped pecan nuts.
Pour into greased and parchment lined loaf pan.
Bake at 180oC in preheated oven for 50-60 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean when tested.
Cool in pan briefly then turn out onto a rack to cool completely.
Keeps well if refrigerated.
7. Use central core of the banana bell, the tender immature flowers and bracts for salads and as a cooked vegetable.
8. Banana flower salad
Use flower or bells only from a chemical-free source.
Discard the tough outer leaves from a banana flower, then finely shred the rest.
Keep the outer shells for serving.
Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a wok or frypan over high heat.
Add 1 onion, seeded and chopped red chilli, 2 cloves, crushed garlic, 1 tablespoon shredded ginger.
Cook for 3 minutes or until golden.
Add shredded banana flower and cook for 8 - 10 minutes or until banana flower is tender.
When shredding the flower keep in lemon juice and water to stop it browning till you have finished shredding when ready dry on a paper towel.
Add 500g lean rump steak, or chicken breast, or prawns or fish and cook for 5 minutes or until sealed.
Add 2 tablespoons lime juice and 2 tablespoons of soy sauce and cook for 2 minutes.
Toss through 3 tablespoons mint and 3 tablespoons coriander and serve.
Sunday, February 13, 2022
Friday, February 11, 2022
Thursday, February 10, 2022
ANOTHER ELEMENT IN A CULTURALlandscape
Musaceae, the banana family of plants (order Zingiberales), consisting of 2 genera, Musa and Ensete, with about 50 species native to Africa, Asia, and Australia. The common banana (M. sapientum) is a subspecies of the plantain (M. paradisiaca). Both are important food plants.
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The slender or conical false trunk of Musaceae herbs may rise to 15 metres (50 feet). The “trunk” is formed by the leaf sheaths of the spirally arranged leaves, which form a crown at the top. The large leaves may be up to three metres long and half a metre wide. The prominent midrib of the leaf is joined at right or slightly oblique angles with parallel veins. When the plant grows in an unsheltered place, wind and rain easily tear the leaves between the veins, giving the leaves a fringed or ragged appearance. The large, leathery bracts (leaflike structures) are red to purple. The yellow flowers have five fertile stamens and are rich in nectar.
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
A BANANAmemory
TO BE CLEAR “One of the terribly good fun things I did the first time I went to SE Asia was to buy an entire bunch of those tiny sweet bananas from a roadside vendor.
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I felt like the richest person in the world as I hoisted my giant golden bounty on my shoulder! – not to mention the friends you make when you are flush with bananas and are handing them out like Lady Bountiful!” ... LINK
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
A PARADIGM REVEALING ITSELF
LINK – https://grow.foodrevolution.org/screening/
QUESTION
"Is the monocultural industrial agriculture championed in the 20th C failing humanity as whole and now challenging humanity's place
in the global food chain?"
Dr. Luther Blissett
Monday, February 7, 2022
KOOOLtool for BANANApeople NOW
AS A MARKETINGtool the BANANAindustry could offer one of these FREE for every 11GREENbananas purchased at a LOCAL GREENgrocer's shop
Sunday, February 6, 2022
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Thursday, February 3, 2022
AUSTRALIAN BANANAnews
"SEPT 2019"Great Barrier Reef Minister Leanne Enoch said the Government was not avoiding debate over the proposed laws, which would force farmers to reduce the amount of fertiliser and sediment leaving their property."
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