For every plate of matooke, three-fourths of it comprises water. One-fourth is carbohydrates, which the body breaks into simple sugars for energy. One serving of matooke has the same amount of energy calories as a cup of rice or a cup of chopped-up roasted chicken.

Is Matoke a starch?

Matoke, locally also known as matooke, amatooke in Buganda (Central Uganda), ekitookye in southwestern Uganda, ekitooke in western Uganda, kamatore in Lugisu (Eastern Uganda), ebitooke in northwestern Tanzania, igitoki in Rwanda, Burundi and by the cultivar name East African Highland banana, is a starchy triploid ...

Is cooked banana protein or carbohydrate?

Each banana has only about 105 calories and consists almost exclusively of water and carbs. Bananas hold very little protein and almost no fat. The carbs in green, unripe bananas consist mostly of starch and resistant starch, but as the banana ripens, the starch turns into sugar (glucose, fructose and sucrose).