Banana chips are tasty dried-up and crispy pieces of banana which were prepared in the microwave oven, an oven, after frying in vegetable oil or drying in the special device. Their taste can differ a little depending on preparation option. In this article we will in detail consider, banana chips are useful or harmful to the person and also how to prepare this dish in house conditions.
Caloric content and chemical composition
Nutritiousness of a product
On 100 grams of banana chips:
- calories — 519;
- the general fat — 33.6 g;
- saturated fat — 29 g;
- monounsaturated fat — 2 g;
- polyunsaturated fat — 0.6 g;
- sodium — 6 mg (1%);
- potassium — 536 mg;
- carbohydrates — 58.4 g;
- pure carbohydrates — 50.7 g;
- sugar — 35.3 g;
- fibers — 7.7 g (31%);
- squirrel — 2.3 g.
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Vitamins and minerals in 100 grams of a product:
- vitamin A — 4 mg (1%);
- B6 vitamin — 0.3 mg (20%);
- B12 vitamin — 0 mg (0%);
- vitamin C — 6.3 mg (11%);
- vitamin D — 0 mg (0%);
- vitamin E — 0.2 mg (2%);
- vitamin K — 1.3 mg (2%);
- caffeine — 0 mg;
- calcium — 18 mg (2%);
- iron — 1.3 mg (16%);
- magnesium — 76 mg (22%);
- phosphorus — 56 mg (6%);
- zinc — 0.8 mg (5%);
- copper — 0.2 mg (11%);
- manganese — 1.6 mg (78%);
- selenium — 1.5 mg (3%);
- Retinolum — 0 mg;
- lycopene — 0 mg;
- thiamine — 0.1 mg (6%);
- Riboflavinum — 0 mg (1%);
- niatsin — 0.7 mg (4%);
- folate — 14 mg (4%);
- it is well-cared — 21.3 mg (4%);
- water — 4.3 g.
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Fatty acids and amino acids in 100 grams of a product:
- tryptophane — 0 g;
- threonine — 0.1 g;
- leucine — 0.2 g;
- lysine — 0.1 g;
- methionine — 0 g;
- cystine — 0 g;
- phenylalanine — 0.1 g;
- tyrosine — 0.1 g;
- valine — 0.1 g;
- arginine — 0.1 g;
- histidine — 0.2 g;
- alanine — 0.1 g;
- asparaginic acid — 0.3 g;
- glutamic acid — 0.2 g;
- glycine — 0.1 g;
- serin — 0.1 g.
Whether you know? In 2016 in China the new law forbidding to people to eat bananas on the air was adopted — in it legislators saw indecent hints of sexual nature.
Than banana chips are useful
Bananas are the nutritious product rich with potassium and cellulose, by method of frying or drying make banana chips of them. But whether such dried fruits here are useful to human health if in them a large amount of saturated fats and much smaller amount of the main nutrients in comparison with fresh banana, we consider further. Advantage:
- Fiber — contains in banana chips enough fiber that does this product very useful. Fiber promotes the correct work of digestive system of the person, thereby reducing the probability of locks. Inclusion in a diet of a product rich with cellulose, will also reduce risk of developing of heart diseases and type 2 diabetes.
- High nutritiousness — banana chips very tasty and nutritious, it is easy to satisfy with them hunger. A half of a cup or 34 grams of chips is equivalent to 1 cup of fresh fruit. But it is desirable to control quantity of eaten always. A half of a cup of this product contains 176 calories, 20 grams of carbohydrates, 11 grams of the general fat and less than 1 grams of protein.
- Vitamins and minerals — a half of a cup of banana chips contains 4 percent of the daily portion of potassium recommended by nutritionists, from 6 to 8% of magnesium, 3% of phosphorus and from 4 to 6% of vitamin A. Potassium, magnesium and phosphorus work as electrolytes which help to maintain balance of liquid. Vitamin A promotes health of eyes and helps to strengthen the immune system. The potassium which is contained in banana chips, coming to an organism, promotes normal heartbeat and the correct functioning of muscles. Mineral also plays an important role in the correct work of digestive system and fortress of a skeleton. The adult needs 4700 milligrams of potassium daily.
Important! Despite the useful vitamins and minerals which are contained in banana chips, it is necessary to remember that in fresh bananas of these useful substances it is much more. For human health it is much more useful to use fresh fruit, than there are chips saturated with harmful fats.
Contraindications and harm
Possible harm for health:
- Chemistry — the banana chips made by a drying method incorporate chemical amplifiers of taste and aroma.
- Additional sugar — while all fruit contain natural sugar, often add the refined sugar for improvement of taste and increase in sweet of a product to chips. A half of a cup of banana chips contains 12 grams of the added sugar that it was more evident - it is three teaspoons. A large number of sugar can lead to obesity, diabetes and the increased level of triglycerides or fats in blood. Upon purchase it is the best of all to give preference to banana chips without addition of sugar.
- Fat — the production technology of chips assumes roasting of banana slices to a crispy state, as a result they contain a significant amount of fat most of which part saturated. Saturated fats can be noxious to health the person because they increase cholesterol level, contributing to the development of heart diseases. Inclusion of too large amount of saturated fats in a daily diet can serve as a push for development of type 2 diabetes. Physicians recommend to limit consumption of saturated fat of 10% of total number of calories.
To whom are contraindicated
The dried-up crispy pieces possess an essential shortcoming — one of manufacturing techniques assumes roasting of fruit in vegetable oil, as a result of a hrustyashka are literally crowded with noxious to health saturated fats. Food is categorically contraindicated to people, sick diabetes of any type and to cores.
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How to make banana chips
Banana chips will not break healthy food only if the person not too often eats them. It is possible to afford not so useful delicacy one or two times a month to enjoy juicy taste, but you should not eat them more often. It is even better to make banana chips by own hands.
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Several simple recipes by means of which any hostess will be able to prepare this dish are given slightly below. Will be necessary for work:
- slayser or a sharp knife for cutting of fruit;
- cutting board;
- deep bowl for water on 1–2 l;
- the electric or mechanical juice extractor for lemons;
- electrooven, the microwave or the electrodryer for vegetables and fruit;
- tight containers for the subsequent storage of chips.
Video: how to make banana chips
In an oven
The most traditional preparation of banana chips in house conditions is a drying in an oven.
Important! Banana chips can be stored for a long time provided that they are in a tight container, but it is not necessary to store them too long as the taste of a freshly cooked product is much better and brighter, than after many months of storage.
Ingredients:
- 10 large bananas;
- juice of one lemon;
- 20–30 ml of vegetable oil;
- salt to taste.
How to prepare:
- For the best taste of future chips take ripe, but firm bananas. Fruit cut on thin slices. Thickness of slices in 2–3 cm is necessary for strongly crispy banana chips. For less crispy, but fleshier chips bananas can be chopped slices in 4–6 cm. Depending on cutting thickness from ten big bananas it is possible to receive about 300 slices.
- Squeeze out juice into which dip previously prepared slices of fruit of one lemon. Lemon juice gives to a dish additional aroma and enriches with vitamin C.
- Then slices stack on the baking sheet covered with food aluminum foil and oiled vegetable then slightly add some salt to them sea or usual salt.
- In the oven which is previously heated to 50–60 °C establish a baking sheet with fruit. Temperature of an oven should not be established above as it can lead to the fact that chips will burn outside and will become soft inside. It is necessary without hurrying to bake bananas within five-six hours at an initial temperature. Preparation time depends on as far as the culinary specialist wishes to receive a crisp. To accelerate drying process, in 2 hours from the beginning of cooking it is necessary to turn slices on other party.
- Ready banana chips take out from an oven and completely cool. It is the best of all to store a ready-made product in an air-tight plastic or glass container or a big polyethylene Zip-package.
Video: how to make banana chips in an oven
Whether you know? Bananas have the curved form because they grow upside down in relation to the sun. The bouquet of bananas is called "hand", and separate banana is called "finger".
In the microwave
Pretty fast it is possible to make such crispy dried fruits by means of the microwave oven. Ingredients:
- 3–4 bananas;
- 1–2 lemons for a pressing;
- any spices (black or red pepper, coriander, nutmeg, turmeric, etc.)
- water for cooking.
Important! At preparation in the microwave of chips it is necessary to be especially careful within the last two minutes of preparation not to allow a podgoraniye of bananas.
How to prepare:
- The bananas which are not peeled from a thin skin stack in a pan, fill in with water so that to cover fruit, bring to boiling and cook on moderate fire within 10 minutes.
- The boiled fruit take out from water and leave on a plate before full cooling.
- At the cooled-down fruit delete a thin skin and cut their pulp thin ringlets 0.5 mm thick. The cut slices have to be identical on thickness to avoid uneven preparation in the microwave.
- The cut slices display on a flat plate for the microwave in one layer so that pieces did not concern each other. Slices salt to taste, strew with red or black pepper and a turmeric.
- The plate with fruit is placed in the microwave oven. Cook chips within 8 minutes at high temperature.
- Each two minutes it is necessary to open the microwave, to pull out a plate with fruit and to overturn slices. It will allow them to prepare evenly on both sides.
- The ready-made product is taken out from the microwave oven. After cooling, banana chips will become crispy. They can be eaten immediately or to place in a tight container for long storage.
Video: how to make banana chips in the microwave
In the dryer
It is also possible to make in the electric dryer for vegetables and fruit spicy banana chips. Ingredients:
- 2–3 kg of bananas (depending on quantity of trays in the dryer);
- 2–3 lemons for receiving juice;
- salt, red or black pepper, nutmeg, dried Provence herbs.
Important! The cut banana slices immediately pour out in a bowl with very cold water where they also are stored to the next stage of preparation. It becomes in order that fruit did not turn black on air.
How to prepare:
- Bananas peel then cut on uniform thin slices. What will more thinly cut slices, especially crackling they will be after drying.
- The cut slices stack on electrodryer lattices in one layer so that pieces did not adjoin with each other.
- Squeeze out juice of lemons and sprinkle them the slices of fruit laid on lattices. Over juice the pieces of banana fall down salt, spices and herbs.
- The timer of the electrodryer is installed for work within 24 hours at 57 °C. When slices of fruit become completely dry and gain pleasant caramel color, they need to be taken out from the electric device.
- Take out dried fruits together with lattices on which they lie. After delicacy cools down to room temperature, it is stacked on storage in glass or plastic ware with a cover.
Many people very much love banana chips — the tasty, crispy and fragrant delicacy which quite deservedly won love of the consumer.
It will be useful for you to learn what such dried fruits as are useful: prunes, dried apricots, dates, dried apricots and also fig dried.
But in view of the high amount of saturated fats which is present at them it is undesirable to regale on this product too often. It will be most correct to pay attention to fresh fruit.