p. 13 | The Banana as a Food

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 9, 1903

The Banana as a Food

THE banana, notwithstanding certain prejudices to the contrary, is among the most valuable and nutritious foods. Primitive man in tropical countries is said to have subsisted mainly upon this fruit, and the savage of the sea islands owes to it his physical power. The claim is made and supported by reliable authority, that bananas contain all the essential elements of nutrition, and that, if necessary, life can be sustained by an exclusive diet of this fruit. What has not been generally known is the fact that the banana is a developed tropical lily, from which by ages of cultivation the seeds have been eliminated, and the fruit greatly expanded.—Selected.