Title

A review on the therapeutic potential of Banana flower

Authors

Jayamathi Govindaraj¹, Keerthidaa Govindaraj², U Vidyarekha³, S. Bhuminathan⁴, Sindhuja Lakshmi⁵ & Kesavaram Padmavathy^6,*

Affiliation

¹Department of Biochemistry, Sree Balaji Dental College & Hospitals, Bharath Institute of Higher Education & Research, Pallikaranai, Chennai, 600100. India; ²MGM Health Care, Nelson Manickam Road, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India; ³Department of Public Health Dentistry, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education & Research, Pallikaranai, Chennai, 600100, India; ⁴Department of Prosthodontics, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education & Research, Pallikaranai, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; ⁵Department of Microbiology, Research Laboratory for Oral and Systemic Health, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education & Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; ⁶Department of Microbiology, Sree Balaji Dental College and Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education & Research,Pallikaranai, Chennai, 600100, India. *Corresponding author

Email

Jayamathi Govindaraj – E-mail: gjayamathe@gmail.com
Keerthidaa Govindaraj - E-mail: keerthidaagovindaraj@gmail.com
U. Vidyarekha - E-mail: vidh_dr@yahoo.in
S. Bhuminathan - E-mail: bhumi.sbdc@gmail.com
Kesavaram Padmavathy - E-mail: padmabakianath@gmail.com; Phone: +91 9884164212

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received March 1, 2022; Revised April 30, 2022; Accepted April 30, 2022, Published April 30, 2022

Banana (Musa paradisiaca) flower is rich in phytochemicals and exhibit antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticancer properties etc. The flower extract of banana showed promising therapeutic effects due to the presence of phytochemicals and minerals.

Keywords

Banana flower, polyphenol, galactopoietic effects, menorrhea

Citation

Govindaraj et al. Bioinformation 18(4): 349-353 (2022)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.