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Everyone knows that plantains can be eaten, but few people know that you can cook with plantain hearts. Eating from the mountains, the Dai, Lahu, Hani and other ethnic minorities living in the tropical rain forests of southwestern Yunnan use the young stem hearts of wild plantains that grow in the mountains and valleys to make delicious dishes on the table. Wild plantain can bloom and bear fruit just like banana, but the fruit is small, with dense black seeds inside the peel, and almost no edible pulp. It is generally used as pig feed. The stem heart of wild plantain has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, diuretic and reducing swelling, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Before the wild banana blooms, you can pick its stems and peel off the outer skin to get the fluorescent tube-like inner stems, which can be eaten cold, stir-fried, or stewed.
