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What is the eating benefit of banana and it's nutrients .?

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When a banana plant is mature, the corm stops producing new leaves and begins to form a flower spike or  inflorescence . A stem develops which grows up inside the pseudostem, carrying the immature inflorescence until eventually it emerges at the top.  Each pseudostem normally produces a single inflorescence, also known as the "banana heart". (More are sometimes produced; an exceptional plant in the Philippines produced five.  After fruiting, the pseudostem dies, but offshoots will normally have developed from the base, so that the plant as a whole is  perennial . In the plantation system of cultivation, only one of the offshoots will be allowed to develop in order to maintain spacing.  The inflorescence contains many  bracts  (sometimes incorrectly referred to as petals) between rows of flowers. The female flowers (which can develop into fruit) appear in rows further up the stem (closer to the leaves) from the rows of male flowers. The ovary is  i...