Comments on: Banaba Bark https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/banaba-bark A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Mon, 23 Mar 2015 05:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bea https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/banaba-bark#comment-698277 Mon, 23 Mar 2015 05:08:00 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=38790#comment-698277 It looks a bit dark for banaba bark

]]> By: jim https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/banaba-bark#comment-698267 Sun, 22 Mar 2015 06:46:27 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=38790#comment-698267 Akala ko ay mukha ni nognog b. LOL!

]]> By: Victoria https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/banaba-bark#comment-698232 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:12:02 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=38790#comment-698232 It takes a number of years to grow a healthy tree to maturity. The banaba tree dies a slow death everytime it is stripped of its bark. This tree gives so much joy to the beholder every flowering season.

]]> By: Dogbone https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/banaba-bark#comment-698225 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 05:02:00 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=38790#comment-698225 “…just needed to wrap the fresh bark around my trunk to cure it. Not. ”

Hahaha! Brilliant!

]]> By: Natie https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/banaba-bark#comment-698221 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 02:11:29 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=38790#comment-698221 Yes, I remember those pretty, purple to lilac , paper thin, babana flowers…

]]> By: EJ https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/banaba-bark#comment-698211 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:15:58 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=38790#comment-698211 Leah, you are right. The purple flowers of banaba are pretty, very pretty. I used to look forward to seeing them every spring on a tree just outside my office in Hanoi – and then saw quite a number of them along South Superhighway back home.

]]> By: marilen https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/banaba-bark#comment-698205 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 09:42:47 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=38790#comment-698205 Yes, I do love your posts on unusual finds !!

]]> By: leah https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/banaba-bark#comment-698192 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 21:12:12 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=38790#comment-698192 I’ve read at least one scientific paper (peer-reviewed) that showed banaba has an anti-diabetic component. They have isolated the chemical compound and tested its blood sugar lowering effects. I don’t know about the UTI, though. If you are ever on NLEX, you might see banaba trees along the way. They are trees with pretty purple flowers. They are related to the crepe myrtle that grow abundantly in the American southeast.

]]> By: amy https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/banaba-bark#comment-698190 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 19:51:52 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=38790#comment-698190 Since you are in the topic of unusual market finds, I think I have the answer to your post way back in 2008, “What is Lupo?”. Lupo is alligator weed, Alternanthera Philoxeroides, and yes, edible and used as vegetable in sinigang, munggo, etc. And the unidentified sineguelas in another post is Ambarella. Ambarellas are closely related to sineguelas. And I never thought that mangoes and sineguelas are related, but they are, both from the Anacardiaceae family. I love reading your unusual finds :)

]]> By: EbbaBlue https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/banaba-bark#comment-698188 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:36:14 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=38790#comment-698188 Sold around Quiapo church, year 70’s.
Nanay bought some.

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