I love Crafting: All about Banana (Part I)

Banana is a fruit that is very easy to get, most types of bananas are yellow when ripe, though there are some that are green, red, purple, and orange
Bananas as a food ingredient has excellent nutritional content, such as energy supply is quite high compared to other fruits. Bananas are rich in minerals such as potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, and calcium. Bananas also contain vitamin, namely C, B complex, B6, and active as neurotransmitter serotonin in the smooth functioning of the brain.
Banana plants have soft stems and multilayer, long broad leaves, large purple flowers. And the fruits arranged in bunches of bananas with multilevel groups

In addition to the delicious fruit and lots of health benefits, all part of the banana plant can be utilized, such as:

We can use banana leaves as food wrappers, Lemper, Pepes, rice wrapped and others. There is a different sensation when we eat rice wrapped in banana leaves. Even in rural areas people often use banana leaves as umbrellas in the rain

Rice wrapped banana leaf

Pepes

Lemper

Banana leaf umbrella

Banana leaf midrib we can use as a brush cleaner when we're making cookies. We can also make children toys from it, such as rocking horses and guns.

Gun


Horse

Banana's flower is often called "Ontong or Jantung", can be processed into delicious dishes.
in addition to lodeh (Indonesian cuisine), some people even make shredded and jerky of banana flower.

Ontongor Jantung (Banana;s flower)

Lodeh

jerky of banana flower

shredded of banana flower

The sap of banana is also useful to attach a knife wound from scratch. Just apply the sap of banana which we take from the banana leaf midrib. Will not take long to close the wound and the blood stops flowing.
Banana stem which is still intact is usually to stick puppet shadow, and the deepest part of the banana stem also yummy cooked,