Plantains are a starchy cooking banana eaten across the tropics, used green and starchy through to fully ripe and sweet. They are almost always cooked rather than eaten raw.
Underripe plantains are firm and starchy, high in resistant starch; boiling or steaming preserves the most nutrients with the least added fat.
Where Plantains, underripe, raw Stands Out
Macronutrients per 100g
Vitamins & Minerals
| Nutrient | Per 100g | % Daily Value* | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Potassium | 406 mg | 20% | |
| Magnesium | 29.5 mg | 8% | |
| Phosphorus | 27.9 mg | 4% | |
| Vitamin C | 18.5 mg | 23% | |
| Calcium | 4.83 mg | 1% | |
| Iron | 0.334 mg | 2% | |
| Zinc | 0.185 mg | 2% | |
| Vitamin B6 | 0.159 mg | 11% | |
| Manganese | 0.153 mg | 8% | |
| Copper | 0.109 mg | 11% | |
| Riboflavin (B2) | 0.092 mg | 7% | |
| Fructose | 1.22 g | — | |
| Glucose (dextrose) | 1.20 g | — | |
| Sucrose | 0.000 g | — |
* % Daily Value is the proportion of an adult
EU Nutrient Reference Value (NRV) supplied by 100g of this food.
NRVs are the labelling standard — the same basis as the “%RI” figures printed on
food packaging — so these percentages are directly comparable with a shop label.
They are a single adult figure and do not vary by age or sex, which is why they
sometimes differ from UK dietary reference values: the NRV for vitamin C is 80mg
where the UK RNI is 40mg. When Nutriofia assesses your own intake in the
reports and trackers, it uses the age- and sex-specific UK values instead.
Fibre is shown without a percentage. Our fibre values use the UK
Englyst NSP method, while the published 30g daily goal is an AOAC figure — the two
are measured differently and a single percentage would mislead.
How we source and normalise our data →