- Perfectly ripe organic bananas milled into a fine powder
- High in fibre - supports digestive health
- Great source of B vitamins - brain boosting
- Perfect addition to a breakfast smoothie
- Re-sealable air tight, foil pouch to ensure maximum freshness
- 100% pure botanical ingredients, absolutely nothing added
Organic Raw Banana Powder from Indigo Herbs is derived from perfectly ripe Banana's.100% Raw, slow dried, full of vitamins, minerals and fibre and absolutely delicious. Organic Raw Banana Powder is versatile and very easy to use - perfect for morning smoothies, baking and raw cakes.
At Indigo Herbs we are passionate about premium quality botanicals. Explore the tabs on this page to find out more about the quality, manufacture and suggested use of this superfruit powder. We are unable to advise you here on the benefits of our herbal products, however we do recommend you take the opportunity to research the many benefits of this herb. At Indigo Herbs we are committed to empowering optimum health and nutrition and assisting you to take responsibility for your own health and wellbeing, by having access to many of natures healing botanicals. Please consult an Herbalist as to how this product can benefit you.
The mineral most famously associated with bananas is potassium – our Organic Banana Powder contains high amounts of this important mineral which is vital for the functioning of all living cells! Potassium ions conduct electrical impulses along muscle and nerve cells making it essential to a healthy central nervous system. Potassium is also important in maintaining normal blood pressure due to its vasodilating properties.
Also high in copper and manganese – these two minerals work in tandem to protect the body from free radical damage. Copper also plays a beneficial role in immune function - it is necessary for healthy white blood cells, the cell type tasked with identifying and destroying pathogens.
With respectable amounts of vitamin A, B vitamins and magnesium, this delicious powder tastes great in smoothies or add to cakes, breads or flapjacks to give your baked goods a nutritional boost!
This Superfruit powder can be added to a breakfast Smoothie, or as a natural flavoring in muesli, flapjack, yogurts, biscuits, cakes, raw food cakes and fruit breads.
Serving:
This banana powder can be utilized as much as you like. There are no standard servings.
None Known.
- Certified Organic by The Organic Food Federation.
- Produced to GMP standards.
- Quality Assured by Indigo Herbs.
- Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
- Re-sealable air tight, foil pouch.
- 100% pure botanical ingredients, absolutely nothing added.
Manufacture Process
Every care and attention has been taken in ensuring that this premium quality powder comes to you in peak condition. There have been no chemical pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers used in the production of this highly nutritional powder. After the bananas have been picked and skinned they undergo a very slow drying process, without high temperatures, to make sure that none of the nutritional content is lost. The dry bananas then go through a screening process ensuring the best examples go on to be powdered. Because of the absence of chemical additives in the growing of the Banana plants and the lack of heat processing, the resulting product can be classified as raw and organic. This tasty powder complies with GMP standards and is quality assured by Indigo Herbs.
Potassium, the third most abundant mineral in the human body, is an essential mineral whose ions are vital for the functioning of all living cells! Potassium plays a role at both the cellular and electrical level – considered and electrolyte because it carries a tiny electrical charge – it is found in red blood cells, muscles and bones. Our bodies use potassium ions to conduct electrical impulses along muscle and nerve cells, it helps to boost the efficiency of nerve reflexes that transmit messages from one body part to another, this in turn helps in muscle contraction to perform various activities without tiring quickly.
Potassium also has vasodilating properties that work to relieve the tension of blood vessels which is one of the main causes of high blood pressure. It is helpful in reversing the role of sodium in unbalancing normal blood pressure thus acting as a vital component that maintains the normality of blood pressure in the human body. The importance of potassium should not be underestimated in your dietary plan, most famously found in bananas other rich sources of potassium include spinach, avocados and coconut water.
Potassium contributes to:
· normal functioning of the nervous system
· normal muscle function
· the maintenance of normal blood pressure
Vitamin B6, also known as pyridoxine, plays an essential role in human life and is the most versatile of all the B vitamins! Working closely with the other B vitamins, vitamin B6 contributes to numerous functions in the body. It plays an important role in refurbishing the immune system to the required functional level, this potential health benefit appears to be associated with its role in the metabolism of the amino acid tryptophan. Also referred to as the “mood vitamin”, B6 is needed for proper brain development and function, preventing mental fatigue and helping the body make the feel good hormones serotonin and [censored] that relax and lift your spirits, along with melatonin, the hormone which regulates the body clock.
Vitamin B6 is functional in working with a number of enzymatic systems to make these enzymes work in the desired manner, this association contributes to the proper functioning of the nervous system. It is also involved at several steps in the metabolism of carbohydrates, in particular the enzyme that pulls carbohydrates out of storage in the cell - in the form of a molecule called glycogen – which requires vitamin B6 for its activity and it metabolises a number of other nutrients to extract energy. Vitamin B6 is a key factor in the manufacture of haemoglobin – the oxygen carrying component of red blood cells – and has a role in preventing heart disease. Without enough B6 a compound called homocysteine builds up in the body which can damage blood vessel linings, setting the stage for plaque build-up when the body tries to heal the damage. Vitamin B6 prevents this build-up thereby reducing the risk of heart attack. The availability of this important vitamin is highest in foods like spirulina, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, green beans, walnuts and wheat germ.
Vitamin B6 contributes to:
· the normal functioning of the nervous system
· normal homocysteine metabolism
· normal protein and glycogen metabolism
· normal psychological function
· normal red blood cell formation
· the normal function of the immune system
· the reduction of tiredness and fatigue
· the regulation of hormonal activity
· normal cysteine synthesis
· normal energy-yielding metabolism
The importance of magnesium ions for all life itself, as well as for overall vibrant health, is hard to overstate. Frequently referred to as the “miracle mineral”, magnesium is required to give the “spark of life” to metabolic functions involving the creation of energy and its transport, the creation and synthesis of proteins and is involved in literally hundreds of enzymatic reactions - it activates the enzymes that make copies of DNA and RNA making it essential in the process of cell division.
Roughly half of your body’s magnesium is stored in your bones and acts as a cofactor with calcium and vitamin D to maintain and strengthen the bone structure and teeth (your teeth can only form hard enamel from calcium if magnesium is available). It also works, again in concert with calcium, to regulate electrical impulses in the cells. Cellular calcium channels allow the mineral to enter the cell only as long as needed to conduct an impulse, it is ushered out immediately by magnesium once its task is fulfilled, operating as a natural calcium channel blocker and responsible for relaxation, magnesium is pivotally important to the functioning of the parasympathetic nervous system. Both magnesium and calcium are intimately involved with muscle function (magnesium relaxes, calcium contracts) with frequent muscle cramps being a symptom of a deficiency in magnesium. If magnesium is severely deficient, the brain is particularly affected as magnesium is crucial to the production of neurotransmitters and the integrity of the blood brain barrier and therefore is needed to maintain normal psychological function. The best food sources of magnesium include; avocados, chia and hemp seeds, sesame seeds, raw cacao and raw chocolate, sprouted nuts/seeds, sea vegetables (such as kelp and nori), raw green vegetables and grass fed dairy products.
Magnesium contributes to:
· a reduction of tiredness and fatigue
· electrolyte balance
· normal energy yielding metabolism
· normal functioning of the nervous system
· normal muscle function
· normal protein synthesis
· normal psychological function
· the maintenance of normal bones
· the maintenance of normal teeth
· Magnesium has a role in the process of cell division
| Nutritional info | Per 100g | Serving 5g | Serving %RDA* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Portion in grams | 5 | ||
| Energy KJ/ Kcal | 1520KJ/363Kcal | 76KJ/18Kcal | 0.91% |
| Fat | 0.6g | 0.03g | 0.04% |
| of which saturates | 0.1g | 0.01g | |
| Carbohydrate | 81.5g | 4.08g | 1.57% |
| of which sugars | 73.56g | 3.68g | |
| Protein | 4g | 0.2g | 0.40% |
| Dietary Fibre | 7.7g | 0.39g | |
| Salt | 0.2mg | 0.01mg | 0.00% |
| Vitamin A | 0.1488mg | 0.01mg | 0.93% |
| Vitamin B1 | 0.2mg | 0.01mg | 0.91% |
| Vitamin B3 | 2.8mg | 0.14mg | 0.88% |
| Vitamin B6 | 0.4mg | 0.02mg | 1.43% |
| Potassium | 1491mg | 74.55mg | 3.73% |
| Magnesium | 108mg | 5.4mg | 1.44% |
| Copper | 0.4mg | 0.02mg | 2.00% |
| Manganese | 0.6mg | 0.03mg | 1.50% |
Also available as
