The Musaceae family, also known as the banana family, has unique
morphological characteristics such as large herbaceous growth, pseudo stem, large
elongated leaves with prominent midrib and entire margin, berry fruits, and spadix
inflorescence covered with spathe. It consists of 6 genera and 130 species (Qamar
and Shaikh 2011). The members are rich in carbohydrates in the form of simple
sugars (fructose, sucrose, glucose, etc.) and starch, vitamin B, Mineralspotassium, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, and pectin fibers. Some
members contain antinutritional compounds such as tannins, lactins, phytic acid,
etc. (Qamar and Shaikh 2011).
