Bananas are known for being packed with nutrients — particularly potassium, vitamin C, vitamin B6, and fiber.Banana also helps in maintaining erection for a longer duration! it keep a check on cholesterol level and helps your blood vessels to function. As the fruit ripens, the concentration of these nutrients does not change. The only thing that does change is that the starch turns into sugar — mainly fructose and glucose. So the longer you wait, the sweeter the banana is going to taste. That doesn’t mean that eating a greener banana is healthier, because your digestive system is eventually going to turn the starch into sugar anyway. So, the calorie count doesn’t change. However, eating a greener banana might have some slight added health benefits. That’s because it contains just a tiny bit more of a starch called resistant starch, which humans can’t digest but is loved by your good gut bacteria. “It’s the kind of starchy material that bacteria look to feed on.
Apart from their nutrition benefits, they’re inexpensive. They’re a peel fruit, which makes them much more easier to store, minimize pesticide exposure when grown, and bonus, you can draw pictures on them and send them in your kids lunches!
Health Benefits:
1.Bananas contain high levels of tryptophan (yes, the same compound found in turkey that giveos you that relaxed, chill feeling). Tryptophan converts to serotonin in the body, the neurotransmitter in the brain that gives you that happy mood, and helps you sleep.
Bananas are also high in Vitamin B, which can aid in warding off depression. Vitamin B helps conserve that tryptophan in your body, giving you more benefits of the serotonin.
2.It also helps in maintaining erection for a longer duration.
3.Bananas are high in fiber and easy on the stomach to digest. When struggling with constipation, ripe bananas in your diet are an excellent way to maintaining regularity, due to its soluble fibre.If your bowel function is irritated and causing an upset stomach or diarrhea, bananas can help restore it.
4.Bananas Aid Weight Loss. While the banana diet is largely considered a fad diet, bananas are often recommended as a staple fruit in many weight loss plans. However, when it comes to incorporating bananas into a balanced diet to aid weight loss, the fruit contains moderate calories, plus fiber and resistant starch, which all support weight loss. They are also very filling, and sweet. Helping you curb your appetite, and satisfy your sweet tooth away from refined sugars and carbs.
5.. Banana Peels are Useful too. Did you know that you can polish silver if you rub items with the inside of a banana peel, wipe it off with a damp rag, and buff it with a soft cloth?Banana peels can also help relieve the itch of a bug bite, soothe the pain of a burn, and remove splinters. Peels can also be laid out to dry in the sun, then ground in a food processor to make instant mulch for your garden. Since the peel is full of potassium and magnesium, it becomes an effective fertilizer when mixed with soil.
6.It’s a Natural Antacid. Due to the fact that bananas are so easily digested, this fruit works as a natural antacid by reducing acidity in the stomach. The bountiful vitamins and minerals, plus the high fiber content in a banana can help strengthen the esophagus. Bananas are also the only raw fruit that will help relieve stomach ulcers by creating a coating on the lining of the stomach to guard against excess acids.
7.Bananas are an Amazing Anti-aging Face Mask. bananas are great for your skin because they contains high amounts of magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, iodine, and vitamins A, B, E, and F! All of which are beneficial to your skin. Mash half banana with ½ cup of yogurt and 1 teaspoon of honey. Apply the mixture all over your face and relax for 15 minutes. Apply a warm cloth to rinse off. You should feel softer, smoother skin almost immediately as the mask helps reduce wrinkles.
8.it keep a check on cholesterol level and helps your blood vessels to function s. I’m sure you know this!
Eating banana during the night may aggravate cold and cough. Banana is a heavy fruit, it takes a long time to digest. If you want to eat it make sure you have it 2-3 hours before you hit the bed. Bananas make you feel lethargic and lazy too.
Be healthy!