Pu Y-Y, Sun D-W (2017) Combined hot-air and microwave-vacuum drying for improving drying uniformity of mango slices based on hyperspectral imaging visualisation of moisture content distribution. Biosystems Engineering 156:108–119 Djuris J, Ibric S, Djuric Z (2013) Chapter 4: Chemometric methods application in pharmaceutical products processes analysis control. In: Djuris J (ed) Computer-aided applications in pharmaceutical technology. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Bananito products that are listed in the Nutrition category.

There’s an important caveat to this remarkable statistic: Jurgen also personally flies guests over the region in a petrol-fuelled gyrocopter. While this offering is technically distinct from Selva Bananito and registered as a separate company, it would certainly skew the figures if counted as one of the lodge’s vehicles. Nonetheless, the garrulous owner insists it’s for the greater good.Cordenunsi BR, Lajolo FM (1995) Starch breakdown during banana ripening: sucrose synthase and sucrose phosphate synthase. J Agric Food Chem 43:347–351 Jurgen should know. Born in Colombia to German parents, he’s lived in Costa Rica for decades. Although he doesn’t use the phrase himself, it’s also clear he’s something of an eco warrior, entrenched on the front line of a battle for the future of the region.

If the banana peel has ripened to a mostly brown color, remove the peel and chop or mash the pulp to include in baked goods or freeze to be added into smoothies. Each review score is between 1-10. To get the overall score that you see, we add up all the review scores we’ve received and divide that total by the number of review scores we’ve received. In addition, guests can give separate ‘subscores’ in crucial areas, such as location, cleanliness, staff, comfort, facilities, value for money and free Wi-Fi. Note that guests submit their subscores and their overall scores independently, so there’s no direct link between them. In accordance with government guidelines to minimise transmission of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), this property currently isn't accepting guests from certain countries, during dates where such guidelines exist. Banana cultivars derived from M. acuminata and M. balbisiana can be classified into cultivar groups using two criteria. The first is the number of chromosomes: whether the plant is diploid, triploid or tetraploid. The second is relationship to the two ancestral species, which may be determined by genetic analysis or by a scoring system devised by Simmonds and Shepherd. A cultivar is scored on 15 characters, chosen because they differ between the two species. Each character is given a score between one and five according to whether it is typical of M. acuminata or of M. babisiana or is in between. Thus the total score for a cultivar will range from 15 if all characters agree with M. acuminata to 75 if all characters agree with M. balbisiana. Intermediate scores suggest mixed ancestry: for example, 45 would be expected for diploids with equal genetic contributions from both species. [7] Ideally, we would publish every review we receive, whether positive or negative. However, we won’t display any review that includes or refers to (among other things):

3. Travel through an old-growth forest

Ma J, Sun D-W, Pu H (2017) Model improvement for predicting moisture content (MC) in pork longissimus dorsi muscles under diverse processing conditions. by hyperspectral imaging. J Food Eng 196:65–72 Pu Y-Y, Sun D-W (2016) Prediction of moisture content uniformity of microwave-vacuum dried mangoes as affected by different shapes using NIR hyperspectral imaging. Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies 33:348–356 Of all the Costa Rica Ecolodges, Selva Bananito is the only Eco Lodge in Costa Rica that has been built with recycled waste wood from logging activity that took place decades ago, thus avoiding the destructive impact of approximately 50 hectares of primary forest when it was built.