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THE BANANA 



FIG. 9. A BANANA PLANT 



From "Nouveau Voyage aux Isles de I'Amerique." Par 

 le Pore Jean-Baptiste Labat. Paris, MDCCXXI. 



Banana flour is made from the fully grown unripe banana, 

 that is, before the starch is changed into sugar in the 

 ripening. It is difficult to peel green bananas, but if they 



