In Vietnam, the banana has been used as food and remedy for some illnesses, even when it is a flower or still green. Banana flowers have a sour and salty flavor they can warm the stomach, ease menstruation, and heal boils. Raw banana flowers can be served as a salad. Boiled, sliced banana flowers mixed with roasted sesame and peanuts is tasty and excellent dish for nursing ladies and old people suffering from constipation.

According to a Chinese medical handbook, taking dried and ground banana flowers with six grams of warm water 3 times a day can cure indigestion, flatulence and nausea. Stomachache sufferers can add 10g of this banana flower powder to a bowl of rice porridge and have it in the course of the day. The banana powder is also great for lung illness sufferers.

A green banana is created up of 10% starch and 6.53% tannin. The powder of a green banana can be utilised to cure stomach ulcers. It is effortless to prepare green banana powder: dry a green banana in low-temperature location and then grind it into powder. Stomach ulcer patients can mix a table-spoonful of the powder with warm water for a drink, and take it twice a day when feeling neither full nor hungry.

Green banana is used as an ingredient for a unique dish. It is cooked in a hotpot with half-fat half-lean pork, tofu, snails, green beans and perilla leaves. This hotpot is considered a specialty of the country. 

Ripe banana has a number of nutritional substances. One hundred grams of ripe banana contain 26.1g of glucose, 1.2g of protein, .3g of lipid, 12mg of calcium, 12mg of iron, 32mg of phosphorous, vitamins A and B1, and minerals such as magnesium and sodium. Ripe banana is as good as meat and is far better than potatoes. One 100 grams of ripe banana supply the body with 100 calories. Ripe banana can be utilized to treat constipation and heal injuries in the intestine. It is excellent for bones and the nervous method. According to scientists at John Hopkins University in the U.S., banana is a excellent medicine for high blood pressure. Poor individuals can afford bananas, as their cost is inexpensive. Nevertheless, banana is not recommended for diabetics. 

Men and women in rural places usually use banana leaves to wrap cakes, rice or sticky rice to take on their journeys. Young banana stems are sliced to mix with other herbs as vegetables for Bun Rieu (vermicelli soup with tiny grab flesh, tomatoes and tofu). Old banana stems are sliced and cooked with bran as feed for pigs they can also be tied together as rafts for crossing rivers or canals. Given such utilizes, banana is a valuable and precious plant for numerous peoples, which includes Vietnamese.