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What to Know About Bananas
Go Bananas
This nifty yellow fruit is touted as the first
“superfood.” It’s packed with fiber to make you feel full and vitamins that do
your body good. Americans go bananas for them. They eat more than 27 pounds a
year — about 90 bananas. That’s more than oranges and apples combined.
Good as Gold?
One large banana is about 8- to 9-inches long and equal
to one serving of fruit. It has about 120 calories and 490 milligrams of
potassium. That’s 19% of a woman’s daily potassium needs and 15% of a man’s.
This nutrient can remove sodium from your body and relax blood vessel walls,
which helps manage blood pressure. The golden fruit is also a good source of
vitamin B6, which is essential for your immune system, nervous system, and
brain.
Bratty Bananas
Bananas put the B in the easy-to-digest BRAT diet.
Doctors often recommend eating bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast when you’re
fighting diarrhea or a tummy ache. Bananas kick-start mucus production in your
gut. This helps protect the stomach lining from the acid that may be triggering
the heartburn, nausea, or whatever else may be causing the upset
Workout Buddy
In one small study, cyclists who ate a banana before a
46-mile ride performed as well as the ones who drank a sports drink before they
took off. After the ride, blood tests showed that signs of inflammation,
cellular damage, and immune function were the same in those who ate the tropical
fruit as in those who drank an electrolyte-replacing drink.
Breakfast Champion
Bananas are a breakfast superstar. Peanut butter and
banana toast is a favorite morning dish. Their natural sweetness can also help
cut the tartness in yogurt or pep up a bowl of hot oatmeal. Folks love to slice
them over their cereal too. Bananas add just the right creamy texture to a
smoothie. And, this portable, handheld fruit on its own makes a great breakfast
on the go.
Banana or Plantain?
They look very similar, but they don’t taste the same.
Your typical supermarket banana, also called a “dessert banana,” is sweet like
its alternate name suggests. Plantains, a staple in the diets of many tropical
regions, aren’t so sweet. This starchy fruit is too firm to eat raw. In
cultures that rely on them, people steam, boil, or fry plantains and serve them
more like potatoes.
Bananaspeak
You may say you’re going to pick up “a bunch of bananas”
at the store. But, that’s not exactly right. A single banana is called a
finger. These fingers grow together in a group called a hand. Many hands grow
together to form a bunch or stalk. A bunch may include as many as 20 hands, far
more than you buy at once in the produce section.
They Don’t Grow on Trees (and Other Myths)
The
banana plant is actually a giant herb. The yellow fruit it produces is a berry.
You may think they are all curved. But, some bananas are long and straight.
Others take the shape of a ball. You’ll find many bananas in Ecuador — the
leading grower in the world. The Philippines comes in second. Hawaii is the
only U.S. state that grows these yellow berries commercially.
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