Bioactive compounds in banana fruits and their health benefits

作     者：Jiwan S.Sidhu Tasleem A.Zafar 

作者机构：Department of Food Science&TechnologyCollege of Life SciencesKuwait University13060-SafatKuwait 

出 版 物：《Food Quality and Safety》 (食品品质与安全研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第2卷第4期

页      面：183-188页

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学科分类：02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 020206[经济学-国际贸易学] 

主　　题：banana fruit nutritional value phytochemicals bioactives phenolics biogenic amines. 

摘      要：Banana is an edible fruit and is herbaceous flowering plant belonging to the genus Musa and the family *** is also eaten as cooked vegetable(and is then called plantains).All the edible banana fruits are seedless(parthenocarpic)and belong to two main species,Musa acuminata Colla and Musa balbisiana *** hybrid from these two species Musa x paradisiaca *** also available *** banana is native to Indomalaya and Australia,Papua New Guinea was the first to domesticate this *** has now spread to almost 135 countries around the *** per 2016 data,nearly 28 per cent of the total world’s banana production comes from India and *** group banana,being the main export item from the banana-exporting countries,usually refers to soft,sweet,and dessert banana in the Western countries,but the plantain bananas have firm,starchy fruit which is suitable for cooking as a *** is known to be rich not only in carbohydrates,dietary fibres,certain vitamins and minerals,but is also rich in many health-promoting bioactive *** composition including various bioactives and their health contributions has been reviewed in this paper.