Launching the specialty of Laba’s dried banana with Japanese technology nghệ

Laba banana – a famous specialty of Lam Dong province, known as the “banana progressing king” with the characteristics of thick skin, fragrant and delicious fruit pulp when ripe – now has a very popular dried product.

Laba banana is a famous specialty banana of Lam Dong land with the advantage of being very flexible, sweet and delicious. (Photo: dacsanhanydalat.com) After hanging persimmons are air-dried naturally according to Japanese and provincial technology Lam Dong Currently, this technology has been applied to produce dried Laba banana specialties. The product has been introduced to the market with an output of about 18 tons and is mainly consumed in Ho Chi Minh City. Product Laba bananas dried of Laba Trade and Service Cooperative (Phu Son commune, Lam Ha district) is produced based on the simulation of processes such as wind drying persimmon. Harvested old bananas are carefully selected, then put through a conveyor belt washed with clean water, then put into a dedicated warehouse to incubate bananas with an incubation temperature adjusted to 40 degrees Celsius to help bananas ripen evenly within 3. day. Ripe bananas are selected by workers, cut, peeled and put through 2 times of washing, after being cleaned, they are put in a fan drying oven to dry for more than 1 hour. After 36 hours put in the air dryer, it will produce 1 batch of dried bananas. Usually 8kg of fresh bananas will yield 1kg dried banana . Nguyen Tan Play, Chairman of Laba Trade and Service Cooperative, said that in the past time, the export of fresh bananas of the unit was severely affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, only 400 tons/year, or 20%. Quantity. Therefore, he and farmers learned about Japanese wind drying technology to apply banana drying, after many trials, it produced a finished product, avoiding the abandonment of ripe bananas and increasing the value of Laba bananas. . Laba banana is also known as “ banana advance king ,” is a famous specialty of Lam Dong province with the characteristics of thick skin, and the fruit’s flesh when ripe has a very delicious, flexible aroma. During the Nguyen Dynasty, Laba bananas were moved to Hue to serve in the meals of the king and the court. Currently, Laba bananas are grown a lot in Lam Ha, Duc Trong (Da Lat) and are very popular with tourists, looking to buy fresh bananas when traveling in Da Lat city.