Plantains are a group of cultivars in the genus called Musa (bananas and plantains) placed in the plantain subgroup of the AAB genome group. Plantains bares fruits in bunch and is generally cooked before eating. Plantains are typically boiled or fried and can be eaten as ripe or unripe and they are starchy but less sugar. Plantain is a good source of potassium and dietary fibres. An average plantain provide 920 kilojoules (220 kilicalories) of food energy, and as such unripe plantain is highly recommended for dibetic patients to be eaten as boiled or processed Plantain flour in West Africa.
