The Secret why Foods Cooked in Banana Leaf Wrapping Taste Better

TIMESINDONESIA, JAKARTA – Pepes (food in banana leaf wrapping), garang asem (spicy and sour soup), nasi jinggo (mixed rice), grilled rice are mouthwatering foods wrapped in banana leaf. Indeed, foods cooked in banana leaf wrapping taste more delicious.

How come? Cited from Doktersehat, banana leaf contains polyphenol, which could create a natural layer of wax when it is wrapped and heated (be it grilled or steamed). The natural layer of wax makes the food in banana leaf wrapping taste more delicious.

Besides, cooking method using banana leaf as food wrapping also makes the polyphenol, such as epigallocatechin gallate found in green tea, absorb into the food, so that the food tastes very delicious.

In fact, polyphenol could be a natural antioxidant that could neutralize free radicals. Therefore, we will be healthier.

Not only making the food more delicious, banana leaf is also environmentally friendly as it could decompose easily. Meanwhile, other wrappings, such as plastic and Styrofoam, take decades to decompose.

That’s why people like banana leaf as food wrappings. It makes the food more delicious and it is also environmentally friendly. (*)

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