Banana Juice

Nutritional Values

• Is the most well known and eaten (tropical) fruit.
• In Eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas.
• Tropical fruit is usually picked unripe and has to ripen in the land of arrival. To speed the ripening process, bananas are treated with ethylene gas. Normal bananas also ripen through ethylene gas, but exposing the banana to additional gas accelerates the process.
• Is the (only) fruit that for some people can work as a fattener, because bananas contain a large quantity of starch (more starch than sugar). Such individuals should not eat too many bananas a day.
• Eat at least one banana a day; they are said to contain everything a human needs for daily nutritional requirements, and they contain all of the eight amino acids our body cannot produce itself.
• Bananas are a good source of fiber, potassium, and vitamin C.
  
• Red bananas are often dried and converted to meal, providing other applications for food preparation and substitution. Red bananas contain more vitamin C than yellow bananas; i.e., the redder the fruit, the more nutritious the elements.
• Ripe bananas stimulate digestion and bowel movement and do not cause constipation.

Bananas could work as a fattener. Don't eat more than one banana a day if you gain weight easily.