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“Plantains are even richer in potassium than bananas. Baked sweet plantains have 663 mg of potassium per cup,” says Parris. If plantain chips are up your alley, up to 10 slices provides 501 mg
As with all living things, potassium-containing bananas emit radioactivity at low levels occurring naturally from the potassium-40 (K-40) isotope. [139] The banana equivalent dose of radiation was developed in 1995 as a simple teaching-tool to educate the public about the natural, small amount of K-40 radiation occurring in everyone and in ...
The major natural source of radioactivity in plant tissue is potassium: 0.0117% of the naturally occurring potassium is the unstable isotope potassium-40. This isotope decays with a half-life of about 1.25 billion years (4×10 16 seconds), and therefore the radioactivity of natural potassium is about 31 becquerel /gram (Bq/g), meaning that, in ...
An average plantain provides about 920 kilojoules (220 kilocalories) of food energy and is a good source of potassium and dietary fiber. [15] The sap from the fruit peel, as well as the entire plant, can stain clothing and hands, and can be difficult to remove.
Plantago is a genus of about 200 species of flowering plants in the family Plantaginaceae, commonly called plantains or fleaworts.
The fruits are 8 to 13 cm (3.1 to 5.1 in) long and 2.5 to 5.5 cm (0.98 to 2.17 in) in diameter. Depending on the ripeness, the fruits are distinctively squarish and angular. The flesh is white and starchy; the starchiness makes this variety particularly suitable for cooking.
Plantago patagonica is a species of plantain known by the common name woolly plantain. It is native to much of North America, including the southern half of Canada, the western and central United States, and northern Mexico, and parts of southern South America. It grows in many types of habitat, including grassland, desert and woodlands. It is ...
The red banana is a triploid cultivar of the wild banana Musa acuminata, belonging to the AAA group. [4]Its official designation is Musa acuminata (AAA Group) 'Red Dacca'. [5] [6]