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Show ;A ' . From Uie New Orleans Democrat, fM Vwv..i.- BANANAS AND PLANTAINS. .f -; A pound of bananas contains more, ' v nutriment than three pounds; of meat, or mny pounds of potatoes while as H ffoodlit in every sense df,the word,, M ' !HB.eoy to the beat wgeae bread W : Anmp ground planfed ;with oar, nanas will return, according to Hum-boldtj Hum-boldtj as much (foojd materia) as, thirty thijee . acres of wheat;, or over a . j hundred hun-dred acres (potatoes, !" ' ' , ' ,The. banana-,ir. should be,4 called plantain, for until lately there was po such w.or,d as bi.nana-is divided into several, .varieties, all of ; which are used. for food. The platinp mazanito' is a -small, plicate Jriiit, neither long, er ortBloute)iapaioAysYoreVnger It is the most delicious VndfiyeHVf ' all thcvarietieSjOl the piantam ,; j t El platino guineo, called byusthe banana, is probably more in "dejiiahd' than any( other kind. It is subdiyi' ed into different varieties, tbe!pnnci-pal tbe!pnnci-pal of which are the yejilow and pur-ple.bananas pur-ple.bananas that we see for ' ; sale in our markets j. but the latter is so' lit- ' tie esteemed by tlie natives of "''the tropics that it is seldom eaten' by i.them. 1 ' ! . i:mpiy the jpjantarnia also sub'dvYa,' 8$ into varieties, which are knowii'by their, savor and their size.. He kind ,.tat reaches our market is almost ten ..inches Jong, . yet oh' the Isthmus of .Qaiien there are plantains that grow fyom eighteen' to UventyQwo ihc'Mefs. they are never eaten ra'w ' but are either boiled or r:6as;ted,' or' are; prepared pre-pared as preserves. t ' 'Mv '" : ' . , . 1 |
