Abstract Background More people—in both developing and developed countries—now use, are favourably disposed to, traditional medicine. Musa paradisiaca (plantain) is used extensively in medicine across continents. In this review, we investigated the scientific justification of extensive usage. Main body Generally, several studies validate usage infectious diseases, but limited antiviral vivo rep...

En el presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo fundamental elaborar bandejas biodegradables a escala laboratorio, partir corteza plátano (Musa paradisiaca) y almidón maíz (Zea mays). cual consistió en la extracción del contenido las cáscaras plátano, cuales son consideradas residuos agrícolas, para utilizarlo materia prima producción bioplásticos, este investigativo se realizaron 1...

Kepok banana (Musa paradisiaca L.) is one of the most commonly consumed bananas in Indonesia. Apart from fruit, other potentially used peel. peel rich flavonoids which has function as antioxidants that protect skin free radicals. In this study, we optimized and conducted physical characterization for peels peel-off gel mask. The aim research was to optimize mask analized characteristics gel. fo...

The atherogenic potentials of peeled grated cocoyam (Xanthosoma maffafa scot) "ekpang nkukwo", pounded yam (Discorea spp) with plain soup "afia efere", and plantain porridge (Musa paradisiaca) "iwuk ukom" meals were investigated. The three meals were fed to three different groups of albino rats of Wistar strain for a period of twenty eight days. A fourth group which served as control was feed w...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The glycemic response to commonly eaten fruits in Nigeria has not been reported. Therefore, this study assessed the plasma glucose response to selected fruits in Nigeria. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ten normal glucose-tolerant subjects randomly consumed 50 g carbohydrate portions of three fruits: banana (Musa paradisiaca), pineapple (Ananus comosus), and pawpaw (Carica papa...