bananas
Any body else notice that bananas are tasting like poop lately? For about the last two months every bunch I buy tastes bad. What happened to bananas that tasted right?
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A professor at CCNY for a physiological psych class told his class about bananas. He said the expression "going bananas" is from the effects of bananas on the brain. Read on:
Never, put your banana in the refrigerator!!! ? ? ?
Why this ever got started is a big question ? ? ? Maybe that silly song.
Bananas taste better cold, and since they ripen so fast - putting them in the frig - helps slow down the ripening process. It does make the skin darken some, but not inside. We always keep our bananas in the refrigerator when they get to the right ripening stage.
After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again.
Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy.
Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.
But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptoph an, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
Anemia : High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia. All of the iron in bananas is in a form that can be used for forming hemoglobin.
Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school ( England ) were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Diarrhea: It is amazing that bananas can be good for both of these problems. How can this be? The pectin contained in bananas swells and causes voluminous, soft, bland stools that clear out the intestines. The number and kind of intestinal organisms are changed favorably because bacteria are absorbed by this pectin, and the growth of beneficial bacteria species is promoted. This is especially important for infants, because from the outset of this illness, bananas help to maintain nourishment and weight.
Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey.. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.
Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves: Bananas a re high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
Colitis and Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.
Smoking & Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
Warts: Those keen on natural alternati ves swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five ti mes the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana a day keeps the doctor away!"
Kidney Diseases:
Uremia - 9 bananas per day for 3 or 4 days.
Nephritis - (inflammation of the kidney) Bananas with every meal - since gastrointestinal upsets often accompany this disease, the bland, non-irritating, midly laxative action of bananas is favored.
Diabetics
Pre- and post-operative patients. The high Vit C content, protects from shock and aids greatly in the healing of wounds.
PS: Bananas must be the reason monkeys are so happy all the time!
I will add one here; want a quick shine on our shoes?? Take the INSIDE of the banana skin, and rub directly on the shoe...polish with dry cloth. Amazing fruit !!!0 -
quote:Originally posted by fastcarsgofast
Any body else notice that bananas are tasting like poop lately? For about the last two months every bunch I buy tastes bad. What happened to bananas that tasted right?
You are peeling them right? Don0 -
Sure, I think. They didn't come with instructions. 0 -
Peel the sticker off and put it on your forehead. Thats the way.
or,
Buy organic ones.0 -
What color are they..? Maybe they're NOT bananas.[;)] 0 -
I have no comparison experience, I've only eaten banana's. 0 -
I have noticed they go from green to rotten, skipping the ripe phase. Probably some kind of chemical. 0 -
They're sending the good ones my way for a change. Suddenly they're tasty. 0 -
Don't know about banana's---taste the same to me; but, if you want the best homemade banana pudding recipe, let me know. Handed down from Grandma and probably even further. Nothing else compares! 0 -
cant hear you, have a banana in my ear[:D] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by LaidbackDan
I have no comparison experience, I've only eaten banana's.
Wouldn't the be "banani"?[;)]0 -
quote:Originally posted by fastcarsgofast
Any body else notice that bananas are tasting like poop lately? For about the last two months every bunch I buy tastes bad. What happened to bananas that tasted right?
Hmmm. I just had two and they tasted fine. Maybe yours were shipped through the San francisco Port....0 -
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I eat one every weekday at work for my first break. They all taste alike and haven't changed to me. 0 -
maybe they're Genetically Modified. I got some tomatoes a while back, they were tasteless and not at all juicy, but oh-so-firm and stayed that way for a month... on top of the fridge no less. ick. 0 -
truck driver gased them to soon, to late, or to much. if they are GREEN when you see them at the store the trucky didnt gas them soon enough. rip with sugar spots and he pulled the lever to soon.
GREEN to Rotten and he hit them with too much.0 -
that's a possibility... I worked in a food warehouse once, they put the bananas in a special room with ozone in it, they told me it was to make them ripe. maybe it has something to do with that. 0 -
Maybe your are from the peanut butter factory..... Peter Pan. Samonella.. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
that's a possibility... I worked in a food warehouse once, they put the bananas in a special room with ozone in it, they told me it was to make them ripe. maybe it has something to do with that.
maybe........its global warming![V]0 -
One of my first jobs was in a fruit and produce warehouse. Every Saturday morning we would unload two semis of stalks of bananas. They were encased with a plastic sleeve and we would put a rope on the stalk end and hang them in the ripening room. They were gassed in the ripening room, not on the truck. The room was left dark and the bananas were left until they started to color yellow, then trimmed into hands and sold. I see them at the stores now very green and I suspect they were just sent out to soon, like much of the produce is now. Tomatos like cardboard, peaches like cannon balls, bananas like green hammers.
The girls that did the trimming and cutting of the bananas had a cage next to the carousel where they kept the tarantulas that fell out of the banana stalks. There were all kinds of little critters found on the ripening room floor, little green frogs, snakes and spiders.
Working at that produce company was a good incentive to improve myself and seek other employment.[:D] But we ate very well.[^]0 -
quote:Originally posted by Odawgp
truck driver gased them to soon, to late, or to much. if they are GREEN when you see them at the store the trucky didnt gas them soon enough. rip with sugar spots and he pulled the lever to soon.
GREEN to Rotten and he hit them with too much.
Sorry, but the truck drivers don't gas them. They have no way to control the gas. I worked in a produce warehouse for several years. When the bannanas arrive at the warehouse they are move to rooms that are humidity controled. This is where they are gassed to ripened them. Bannanas are catergorized by stages 1 thru 6. Stage one is when the bannanas are green. This is usually the stage they are in when they are received from the broker. If you cut a stage 1 bannana you should have a juice sort of ooze out between the skin and bannana. This is the sugar forming. Bannannas are ship to the stores in either stage 3 or 4. A stage 5 bannana is a very ripe bannana. And stage 6 the bannana is very dark in color. The sugar is what gives the bannana it's color.0 -
they come from the philipines or central or south america and they have been poisoned by americans enemies 0 -
You are not supposed to EAT the things! 0 -
quote:Originally posted by RunForest
they come from the philipines or central or south america and they have been poisoned by americans enemies
"I ain't falling for no banana in my tailpipe."
Axel Foley.0 -
Maybe you picked up some plantains by mistake instead of bananas. They look very similar. 0 -
My name's Chiquita Banana
and I'm here to say
Bananas have to ripen
in a certain way.
When they're yellow all over
and have a golden hue
that is when bananas
are the best for you.
You can put them in a salad
You can put them in a pie-ie
But you must never put bananas
in the refrigerator.
No no no no!0 -
....By the way, it's ethylene gas that helps ripen bananas and most other fruit. Wouldn't know if it works in Frisco, though.....[;)] 0 -
Know where those bananas have been? What did you say they tasted like? hmmmmm 0 -
They are probably an alternative when Monica is lonely[:0][:)][:D] 0
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