Health Benefits of Unripe Plantain When the plantain is hard upon pressure and green, you know it’s unripe. You kept it back in a cool to medium space to ripe. You visit a market and while shopping, you saw unripe plantain shove at your face to buy but you don’t give it a thought but quickly opt for the ripe or over-ripe type. Well, you might be missing out on so many health benefits. The unripe plantain you kept back, waiting for it to ripe is loaded with abundant essential minerals and vitamins such as dietary fiber, iron, potassium, vitamin B-complex, magnesium, manganese, copper, niacin, riboflavin, and thiamin. These are 10 health benefits you’ll be getting from eating unripe plantain. 1. It enriches your heart. Unripe plantain contains some amount of serotonin which dilates the arteries, improves blood flow and reduces homocysteine (a condition that causes coronary artery disease and stroke). Its richness in potassium makes it heart friendly by preventing heart attac...

12 Facts About the Pancreas by Mental Floss You could live without your pancreas, but it wouldn’t be easy. For one, you would need to give yourself insulin shots on a daily basis because you would develop diabetes. A helping of enzyme pills would also be needed to help you digest food. It's clear that the 6-inch-long pancreas, located behind your stomach, has crucial functions—and that's why diseases like pancreatic cancer and pancreatitis are often so devastating. Here are a few other important facts to know about the pancreas. 1. Pancreas means “all flesh” in Greek. Around 300 BCE, a surgeon in ancient Greece named Herophilus became the first person to formally describe the pancreas as a gland. However, the organ didn’t get its name until about 400 years later, when another Greek surgeon and anatomist named Ruphos dubbed it the pankreas, meaning “all flesh”—possibly because of its lack of bone or cartilage. (The plural of pancreas, by the way, is pancreata or pan...