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Table 8.2. Vitamin and mineral content in diverse banana varieties (mg/100 g, except vitamin A and β -carotene as μ g/100 g).

Banana ( Musa acuminata ) 3

Sweet Banana 2 Plantain 2

Plantain
( Musa

Tenerife Ecuador

North South cv. Peque na cv. Gran cv. Gran Cavendish Plantain barraganete )

(AAA) 4 (AAB) 4 (AAB) 5 Parameter Ripe Unripe Ripe Unripe Tenerife Tenerife enana enana enana

Vitamin A
(RAE)

— 1 —— — —— — —— 8 . 20 12 . 40 —

β-Carotene 68 48 . 3 390-1035 0.03-1.20 — — — — — 55 . 68 96 . 87 2

Vitamin C 11 . 7 31 20 20 — — — — — 4 . 50 12 . 70 20

Vitamin E 0 . 29 — — — — — — — — — —

Thiamin 0 . 04 0 . 04 0 . 08 0 . 05 — — — — — — — —

Riboflavine 0 . 07 0 . 02 0 . 04 0 . 05 — — — — — — — —

Potassium 385 — 500 — 534 483 510 501 372 . 3 318 . 95 342 . 30 440

Phosphorus 22 — 30 35 63 . 4 54 . 7 — ——21 . 70 26 . 30 25

Calcium 8 . 0 8 . 0 3 . 0 7 . 0 17 . 9 19 . 9 4 . 21 4 . 08 6 . 2 4 . 90 7 . 20 45

Magnesium 30 — 35 33 41 . 2 33 . 6 37 . 7 38 . 9 32 . 0 30 . 80 39 . 40 112

Sodium 1 . 0 — 4 . 0 — 12 11 . 4 0 . 17 0 . 18 0 . 08 17 . 35 16 . 00 —

Iron 0 . 42 0 . 9 0 . 6 0 . 5 0 . 36 0 . 28 0 . 28 0 . 31 0 . 26 0 . 83 0 . 75 31

Manganese 0 . 2 — — 15 0 . 07 0 . 07 0 . 06 0 . 06 0 . 26 0 . 20 0 . 67 268

Zinc 0 . 18 — — 0 . 1 0 . 18 0 . 16 0 . 16 0 . 16 0 . 18 0 . 23 0 . 39 438

Copper 0 . 11 — — 0 . 16 0 . 13 0 . 12 0 . 08 0 . 08 0 . 11 0 . 26 0 . 26 —

1 Not reported.
Source: 2 Aurore et al. (2009); 3 Arvanitoyannis and Mavromatis (2009); 4 Mohapatra et al. (2010a); 5 Rojas-Gonzalez et al. (2006).