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10 Interesting Health Benefits Of Eating Unripe Plantain by Nobody: 12:50pm On Jun 04, 2017
1. It enriches the heart.
Unripe plantain contains some amount of serotonin which dilates the arteries, improves blood flow and reduces homocystine (a condition that causes coronary artery disease and stroke).
It richness in potassium makes it heart friendly by preventing heart attack and hypertension through controlling heart rate and blood pressure in our body and cell. Also, it fibre content is great for reducing cholesterols level which reduce the risk of developing any heart diseases.



2. It can treat anemia and neuritis.
It presence of vitamin B6 can help in curing neuritis (inflammation of the nerve), and anemia: a medical condition where someone is having low red blood cells in the blood, which causes weakness.
With inclusive into meal plan and consumption, it can cure anemia and neuritis and serves as preventive measure.



3.It’s a great meal for weight lossand healthy eating.
It’s relatively low in carbohydrates, with high fibre content, essential vitamins and minerals. When consume with lots of vegetable soup and chicken, it makes a great weight loss and healthy meal.


4.Eating unripe plantain helps with circulatory and digestive system. UnripeCooke dPlantain


5.It source of vitamin A, B6 and C helps with better vision, better skin complexion, builds immunity against diseases and free radicals.



6.It helps with bowel movement.
It richness in fibre makes bowel movement easier which also reduce constipation.



7. It makes a great meal for diabetics.
Unripe plantain is very low in sugar compared to ripe or over ripe plantain and this makes it a good choice for diabetes especially when added with other fibre and protein rich food such as green vegetables. Thus, it makes a great choice for preventing diabetes.



8. It helps builds and strengthens stronger bones.
Unripe Plantain is rich in calcium which is the essential mineral needed for stronger bones, muscles, nails and teeth. A healthy meal with unripe plantain inclusive will prevents diseases such as osteoporosis which involves the weakening of the bones and causes fractures.



9. It can prevent ulcer
Various studies conducted have shown that unripe plantain contains phytochemical properties such as leucocyanidin which can prevents ulcer.




10.It boosts sexual performance
Making unripe plantain part of your healthy meal plan will help you in improving sexual performance through increase libido, improve male fertility, thicker sperm and volume.
Food recipes such as unripe plantain with ginger and garlic, roasted or parboil can work wonders.
In conclusion, you can imagine all the health benefits eating unripe plantain does in our body system, can do, all the prevention and diseases it will be curing.
Include unripe plantain into your meal plan today and start having the many medicinal and therapeutic properties it possess.
You can enjoy it cook which is my favorite by parboiling it in other not to relatively kill its nutrients, fry and make into flour for pudding food.
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Re: 10 Interesting Health Benefits Of Eating Unripe Plantain by Nobody: 7:53pm On Jun 09, 2017
My beautiful maternal Granny was diabetic and mastered the art of preparing unripe plantain so much so that it became a family delicacy.
I was a kid then but i can remember fresh vegetables and smoked fish been part of the menu.

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