Banana leaves are traditionally used as packaging for Thai sweets such as Kanom-sai-saii and Kao-tom-mud. The leaves are formed into packs and steamed or baked to cook various sweets made from ingredients like rice powder, coconut milk, sugar, and red beans. Banana trees provide the leaves for packaging and their fermented waste can be used as fertilizer or fuel.

1. Banana leaves packaging

2. Thai traditional
sweets’ packaging
Using banana leaves to
form a pack and steamed
to bake many sweet.

3. Banana tree
Fermented
Banana leaves
Fertilizer packaging
Cooking Fuel

4. Banana leaves
packaging

5. Kanom-sai-saii
sweet rice powder baked in coconut milk with shredded coconut
Coconut milk
rice powder
sugar
shredded coconut

6. Kao-tom-mud
sweet sticky rice baked in coconut milk with red beans