Although wild banana has nothing to do with bananas, its taste is sweet and juicy, and it is very common in the mountains.

Summary: "Wild banana" is not a banana, and its taste is sweet like a melon.

Wild banana is a perennial vine plant, said to have been a tribute to the ancient Chinese imperial court. It is mainly distributed in the Yangtze River Basin: Enshi in Hubei, Longnan in Gansu, Dazhou and Mianyang in Sichuan, Chenzhou in Hunan, Guiyang and other places, in the Funiu Mountains of Luoyang, Shaanxi and Jiangxi. It is also distributed in Zhejiang. Its common names are "bayuegua" or "bayuezha". In the Fujian region it is called "la", in the Hunan region it is called "huangla", and in the Anhui region it is called "yanpeng" or "niuluandan". In fact, wild banana ripens in September. Because the ripe fruit rind splits open and the fruit inside looks very much like a banana, people call it "wild banana".

What is the difference between wild banana and banana?

From the outside, wild banana is a purple-red or blue fruit in the shape of a finger. Wild banana is rich in vitamin C and a variety of amino acids, as well as valine, methionine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, lysine and others that the human body cannot synthesize on its own. Banana is green when unripe and yellow-green or yellow when ripe, in the shape of a crescent. Banana is rich in vitamin A and rich in magnesium and potassium; eating it can enhance the body's resistance. Wild banana is not only sweet in taste, with juicy flesh, but its texture is also softer and sweeter than that of banana. However, one point is that wild banana has too many seeds inside, and the edible portion is relatively small; unlike banana, it can be swallowed whole in one bite.

What nutritional value does wild banana have? What benefits does eating it bring to the human body?

"Dictionary of Chinese Herbal Medicines" and "Illustrated Chronicle of Chinese Forest Trees" once had special records that wild banana has medicinal and health-care functions such as soothing the liver, tonifying the kidney, relieving pain, reducing inflammation and promoting diuresis. Wild banana is a very good fruit with high nutritional value. Wild banana contains rich protein, amino acids, sugars, vitamin C, magnesium, potassium and other nutrients. The amino acids it contains are very helpful in maintaining normal physiological functions of the body, promoting children's growth and development, and improving immunity. The rich cellulose contained in wild banana can promote gastrointestinal motility and help relieve constipation.

Wild banana contains a variety of sugars, among which the reducing sugars are mostly fructose, and fructose has notable effects in sobering up, protecting the liver, and maintaining normal blood sugar levels. The vitamin C rich in wild banana has antioxidant effects, resists melanin formation, and whitens the skin. Magnesium and potassium elements can dilate peripheral blood vessels and help reduce peripheral vascular resistance, so eating more wild banana also has a blood pressure-lowering effect.

In short, wild banana is not only edible, but is also a multifunctional fruit that combines ornamental, beauty, medicinal and health-care uses.

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