BANANA 



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Composition of Banana Flour and Other Foods 



Water 



BaDana flour : 



From Porto Rico fruit 



From Florida fruit 



From Honduras fruit 



Bananas, fresli. edible portion 



Apples, fresh, edible portion 



Apples, dried 



Wheat flour, patent roller process... 

 Rice 



i Per cent. 



Dried ground bananas are seen to con- 

 tain in the same built more nutritive ma- 

 terial than the fresh. This -nould natur- 

 ally be the case, since a large part of the 

 water in them was removed in drying. 

 Fresh bananas and apples are somewhat 

 similar in chemical composition and the 

 same is true of the dried products. The 

 dried apples contain somewhat more wat- 

 er and hence less nutritive material than 

 the dried and ground bananas. Banana 

 flour contains much less protein than 

 wheat flour. 



As pointed out by the Connecticut State 

 Station, the three samples of banana 

 flour analyzed are quite alike in com- 

 position. They contain less than halt 

 as much protein as rice. Their nutritive 

 value rests almost wholly in the materials 

 which constitute nitrogen-free extract. 

 In those countries where banana flour 

 is prepared in considerable quantity, it 

 is used in combination with milk, sugar, 

 etc., in the preparation of custards, cakes 

 and similar articles. 



C. F. Langwortht 



Imports of Bananas — Tears Ending Jnne 30, 1909-1913 



Imported from 



1909 



North America : Bunches 



British Honduras 413.300 



Canada 3.91.S 



Central American States — 



Costa Rica 5.912.200 



Guatemala 6.i8.300 



Honduras .5.024,807 



Nioarasua 1,171.800 



Panama 3. 772. -561 



Salvador 



Mexico 212,214 



West Indies — - 

 British — 



Barbados 1 



.Tamaica y 



Trin. and Tobago. . ( 14,70.5,454 



Other British J 



Cuba 2.407,918 



Dutch 



Santo Domingo 140,000 



South America : 



Brazil S0.4S1 



Colombia 1,492,692 



Guiana — Dutch 407,939 



Total 36,973.584 



RECAPITULAIION. 



North America 35.022,472 



South America 1,951,112 



1910 



BANAXAS (Free) 



Bunches 

 416.218 

 2,047 



1911 



8.193.800 

 755.600 

 5. .164. 831 

 1.286.581 

 3.402,500 



' 24i',324 



14.380,498 

 2,223,210 

 ' 218.666 



1,012.564 

 659,486 



38,156,659 



36.484.609 

 1,672,050 



Bunches 



549,060 

 9,626 



7.387,700 

 1,458,500 

 6,901,895 

 2.130,732 

 4,043,000 



' 584,842 



r 



J 15,322,867 



L 636 



2,670,200 



17,000 



509,308 



2,540.583 

 564,273 



44,699,222 



41,594.366 

 3.104. 856 



1912 



Bunches 



557,160 

 10.299 



7.053.664 

 2,017,650 

 7,151,178 

 2.270.100 

 4.581,500 

 352 

 817,006 



15,467,918 



6,595 



2.478,581 



304.000 



1,542.988 

 261,548 



44,520,539 



42.716,003 

 1,804,536 



1913 



Bunches 

 651,064 

 4,398 



6,973,684 

 2,359.250 

 7,983,591 

 1,681.944 

 4.438,300 



i.'sVi.soi 



11,163,269 



'l',62.5 

 2.213,733 



475,566 



2,684,749 

 184,498 



42,357,109 



39.487,862 

 2,869,247 



