Everyone must know bananas. The fruit is very familiar and easy to find in almost every country around the world. There is one secret banana unknown people, namely the benefits that can protect the body from the HIV virus that causes AIDS.

In a laboratory study, scientists from the University of Michigan led by Michael Swanson found that one of the named BanLec in banana has the same ability with two anti-HIV drugs now often used in the medical world.

They believe that the cheaper treatment therapy utilizing BanLec in lectin, which is a natural chemical compounds in plants that can fight infection.

Swanson and his team then found that the lectin content in bananas can help it fight the infection with HIV to enter the body. While BanLec act as the ‘envelope’ of proteins that includes the genetic material of HIV.

“Some issues in anti-HIV drugs are now generally is, the virus could mutate and become immune. It’s hard to do by the virus when faced with lectin, “Swanson said as quoted by the Daily Mail.

Swanson mentioned lectin can bind to sugars found in different places on the ‘envelope’ of possible HIV-1 virus has to mutations in the vicinity.