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Bananas are an important staple crop that are mainly consumed as a fresh fruit but are also used in recipes like banana pastillas. Banana pastillas traditionally use carabao milk but researchers suggested using bananas as the main ingredient instead. Bananas are high in natural sugars for energy as well as potassium and vitamin B6, which contribute to heart health, muscle growth, and metabolism, making them a healthy alternative sweet for children when used in pastillas.

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Review of Related Literature

Bananas are an important staple crop that are mainly consumed as a fresh fruit but are also used in recipes like banana pastillas. Banana pastillas traditionally use carabao milk but researchers suggested using bananas as the main ingredient instead. Bananas are high in natural sugars for energy as well as potassium and vitamin B6, which contribute to heart health, muscle growth, and metabolism, making them a healthy alternative sweet for children when used in pastillas.

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Review of related literature Bananas are a very important staple commodity together with wheat, rice or corn.

Bananas are mainly consumed as a fresh fruit. However, there is a multitude of recipes that include bananas as a basic ingredient, one is banana pastillas. Bananas consist mainly of sugars (glucose, fructose and sucrose) and fiber, which makes them ideal for an immediate and slightly prolonged source of energy. Basically the pastilias are made of the milk of the carabao (water
buffalo). Its like a creamy truffles fresh mozzarella-like cheese made on a farm in Nueva Ecija, a landlocked northern province that's a major producer of both milk and rice. The researchers came up with an idea that bananas can be a good main ingredient for making pastilias. Besides its natural sugars(glucose, fructose and sucrose),it has Potassium that helps us in growing, building

muscles, transmission of nerve impulses, heart activity etc and vitamin B6 (pyridoxine,pyridoxal, and pyridoxamine) that helps us in improving our metabolism. In that case, banana is one of the best main ingredient in making pastilias. It can be also an alternative sweets for the children because this pastilias may help them in maintaining theme healthy.

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