2.2. Unripe banana flour (UBF) production
Vacuum dried pretreated pulp was used to obtain UBF through milling (Retsch ZM 200 miller, Haan, Germany) of dried pulp at 16,000 rpm for 30 s. Flour obtained from homogenized unripe banana pulp was characterized for colour, water and oil holding capacities, total polyphenol content and antioxidant capacity.