What is Green Banana Flour?

Green Banana Flour is a prebiotic fiber used in gluten free cooking. It is the highest natural resistant starch and feeds the good bacteria in your gut.  Resistant starch is important as it resists digestion all the way through your body until the gut. Here it feeds the good bacteria in your gut.

Resistant starch has powerful health benefits

“This includes improved insulin sensitivity, lower blood sugar levels, reduces appetite and various benefits for digestion.” https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/resistant-starch-101

If the banana is yellow, sugar has developed and resistant starch turns into regular starch. This is why we, at The Anthill kitchen, use green banana’s to ensure the highest level of nutrients and health benefits.

Prebiotics feed the good bacteria in your gut.

“Prebiotics are special plant fibres that help healthy bacteria grow in your gut. This makes your digestive system work better”, https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/prebiotics-overview . Experts recommend that you start with 5 grams of prebiotics per day. Start with small amounts so that your good bacteria get used to them. Prebiotics need to be introduced slowly into your diet to ensure that no bloating occurs. Increasing up to 30g of green banana flour per day.

We are beyond Organic, regenerating our environment and our soils.

Twala Farming grows bananas following Regeneration Agricultural methods, no chemicals and no chemical fertilizers. Focusing on enhancing soil microbe and improving soil health and biodiversity.

We support our local community

We support a circular economy by buying our inputs from local farmers in our rural area. We make compost from farm waste. We use cover crops intercropped in our bananas to increase biodiversity. We grow healthy, nutrient dense fruit.

We are Natural

These organic bananas are harvested, dried and processed into a powder using a special mill. No added chemicals, no bleaching, no refining, no colorants, no preservatives or additives are in our green banana flour. We use just green bananas.

Good Soil, Good Food, Good Health

We believe growing foods naturally without chemicals produce healthier nutrient dense foods. We have recently been on the Mumpoto show focusing on Nutrition and Climate change watch the full show on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPUrsS4CHaQ . Focusing on healing our environment through farming regeneratively. Growing crops in good soil, produces good food which ensures your good health.

How to Use Green Banana Flour…

Green Banana flour can substitute wheat flour in any cake or biscuit recipe by just reducing the amount of flour by 25%. For example if your cake recipe asks for 100g wheat flour replace with 75g green banana flour. Making that recipe gluten free and healthier. Using green banana flour in your baking ensures you include a healthy prebiotic fibre in your diet, instead of processed and bleached wheat flour.

Green banana flour has a neutral taste but highlights other flavours in recipes. Ensure to pair it with flavours you love!

For the highest health benefits include one spoon of The Anthill Kitchen’s green banana flour into your morning smoothie, cereal or porridge.

Include green banana flour into your daily diet by including it in your nshima porridge, just add 1 tablespoon to your usual recipe. It tastes great with melted butter and sugar. Include green banana flour into other recipes for flavour. Try our recipe for health bread check it out at https://www.theanthillkitchen.com/recipe-video/v/health-bread-recipe-from-the-anthill-kitchen .

Use green banana flour to thicken gravy or stews or sauces. Green banana flour tastes amazing as a sauce. It has a neutral flavour when raw but when cooked tastes earthy and enhances the flavour of other ingredients.

Check out our recipes on our website at https://www.theanthillkitchen.com/recipe-video/v/gluten-free-brownie for more ideas.