Health benefits of bananas

Every one knows Banana make us healthy. There are varieties of banana available in market, but mainly they all divided into two different groups, the first is the sweet variety and second is the unripe variety that is used for cooking. There are plenty of benefits such as cholesterol reducing, blood pressure reducing, and an effective diarrhea treatment.

The sweet variety of banana contains more sugar than starch, but an unripe variety of banana contains more starch than sugar. The ripen banana mainly consists of sugar, glucose, fructose and sucrose, and fiber. Banana is the best source of energy making. It is marvelous source of potassium and vitamin B6, vitamin C, riboflavin, magnesium, biotin and carbohydrates. It was concluded that banana is a potential food source for alleviating vitamin ‘A’ deficiency. It also contains protein, carbohydrate, sugar, vitamin and mineral.

Reduce Cholesterol:

Banana includes the soluble fiber pectin which helps in the reducing of cholesterol. The importance of maximum intake of water-soluble dietary fibers to help to reduce the level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL Cholesterol) is accepted more and more. There are four major water-soluble fiber types; beta-glucan, psyllium, pectin and guar gum that effectively reduce serum LDL cholesterol concentration without affecting HDL cholesterol or triacylglycerol concentrations, which has been now shown by Well-controlled intercession studies. For each additional gram of water-soluble fiber in the diet serum total and LDL cholesterol concentrations decrease by -0.028 mmol/L and -0.029 mmol/L, respectively, according to estimation.

Reduces Blood Pressure:

Banana helps in regulating blood pressure because it is high in potassium. Different nutrition studies have proved to the power of ample potassium to maintain blood pressure within secure levels. Blood pressure is conversely associated with potassium, calcium, and magnesium intakes; it is affirmatively associated with higher sodium, alcohol, and protein intakes. Salt constraint (<6 g/d), alcohol restraint (<2U/d in men and <1U/d in women), weight loss (if BMI>25), exercise, and a DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) (supplying 20-30 mmol/d of potassium) can attain lessen in systolic blood pressure of approximately 10 to 15 mm Hg when applied together. A problem of systolic blood pressure can be solved by trim down intakes of sodium alone, and increased intakes of potassium, calcium, and magnesium each alone. A mixture of all these elements, that is, reduce of sodium, and raise of potassium, calcium, and magnesium intakes, which are characteristic of the DASH diet that has an outstanding blood pressure reducing effect.

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