Friday, November 10, 2006

Banana



by Shajahan Khatun

This is a part of a banana leaf. I got this from the botanical gardens. Banana leaves are used to eat on. Raw bananas are cooked as a vegetable. We eat the ripe banana. The banana flower is also eaten as a vegetable. The banana tree is used in religious ceremonies.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey my names Rachelle I live in the United states near New York. Im in class right now and just read the banana post you written and it seemed very interesting to me, because here we dont grow bananas. I never even knew that bananas had leaves. Im sure that their are alot of olther different facts about your culture that i dont know about, comment back

Anonymous said...

Hey my name is Cindy I am from the United States and I was on learnerblogs and noticed your page! well the way u use bannana leaves for so many things is cool! here in america bananna leaves are not as common. however, in guatemala bannana are used alot! they r used to wrap up foods and boil them. I mention guatemala that is where i am from! it is located in central america! well comment back!

Sus Nyrop said...

Hello Indian friends,

I'm a teacher,and a grandmother in Denmark. I enjoyed reading your post about bananas, too. Although bananas do not grow in our temepered climate with relative cold winters, they are imported mostly from "banana republics" in Latin America, dominated by the United fruit Company.These bananas are cheap but the workers live under very hard conditions with health problems because of the chemicals used in production.
But we can also buy more expensive, but also much better and healthier bananas from small cooperative projects in Nicaragua or Equador (I think) where the banana farmers would get a fair price for their crop, and use less or no harmful chemicals in the production.

Every time I take my three litthe grandchildren to the playground for the afternoon, they would ask me if I have brought bananas for a snack, and most often I have. They love to eat it.