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Basic Banana Facts About Potassium Bananas are a favorite of many worldwide, and for good reason. Here are some basic banana facts that might intrigue you. |
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The banana is an all around good-for-you fruit. Packed with nutrition and bonus alternative medicine / home remedies for a slew of ailments, the banana is a staple ingredient in a healthy diet. So many facts and figures, nutritional benefits, worldwide consumption and possibilities deserve a closer look. Probably the most well known nutritional benefit for the banana, is its potassium content. Potassium is a great remedy to help lower blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive patients, because it helps to balance your blood pressure. It is still being researched, but results are looking very positive |
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and promising that bananas, may be a solution to successfully lower cholesterol, all naturally. In fact, closer to the greener banana (a bit on the unripe side, in other words), which has shown the best results: decreasing your bad cholesterol (LDL) and increasing the good cholesterol (HDL) – simultaneously. In regards to strictly the banana, when they are dried their potassium content skyrockets. How cool is that? Talk about your high potassium! Bananas can be used externally as well; to cleanse and refresh your skin like you were lying in a spa for one hundred bucks an hour. And they are used to soothe an upset stomach. The banana is a key component to the little known “BRAT” diet. An easy on the stomach diet that you might incorporate into your healthy living regimen when constipated, or you have to get some food in your upset stomach or not, and want food to eat that will stay “down”. The BRAT diet is 4-letter acronym representing its ingredients: Banana, Rice, Apples, and Toast (BRAT). Singularly or in the 4-ingredient combination, you’ll discover that these foods offer you much needed energy when your body is drained and sick. Only one other common fruit currently known to man, (strawberry), has more mineral makeup than the banana. In an average banana, you can find these nutrients: potassium, sulfur, silicon, magnesium, iron, chromium, manganese, selenium, phosphorus and zinc. Sodium (salt) content is virtually absent, as every banana has maybe a maximum of 1 milligram total. Another banana fact is that they are packed with vitamin A, and if you want double the vitamin A of a conventional banana, look for the more exotic red bananas nowadays more easily found in your conventional grocery store. If your grocery store sell plantains, odds are better that they will sell red bananas too, often in bunches and individually about a third of the size of a normal banana. If you are making a banana smoothie, or eating as a snack, part of your daily diet, most should opt for a banana that is a golden yellow. If showing some brown (spots are minimal patches), they will be even sweeter and bananas that are showing definite brown color are perfectly suited for banana bread as they are even sweeter still. But eating green bananas, a sign of the fruit not being ripe yet, as mentioned above, are good for your heart, and blood pressure (BP). Do note that bananas ripen very quickly; sometimes green bananas can turn yellow before you get them home from the grocer. In other words, if you are buying your bananas that are of golden yellow color, they will be quick to turn to brown, rot and be inedible, than buying green bananas, as you are buying the bunch in the beginning of its life cycle, rather than near the end. |
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