Banana Flour
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An Industry for the Islands?
INQUIRIES have been received by the “P.1.M.”, in recent months, regard ing the production of banana flour.
One caller informed us that it was widely used in America in the prepara tion of foodstuffs. He wanted to know the name of any firm in the Pacific Islands which manufactures banana flour.
In this connection, the following para graph appeared in a recent issue of “Milling” (a well-known American trade journal): “A correspondent in forms us that banana meal has been made for years in South America, and it is used both for admixture purposes in bread, and alone, as a banana bread.
The vitamin content of banana flour corresponds approximately to that of whole wheat flour, but is less than that of the fresh fruit; in other respects, the product is an easily digested, starchy food.”