Thursday, June 25, 2009

Banana for You!


For you to have a healthy lifestyle, you have to reach your daily requirement of five fruits and vegetables. And the perfect fruit that to be part of your diet and are most popular are bananas. Bananas are the most popular fruit in the world and are ideal for any group. It is eaten in different ways and has plenty of nutritional and medicinal benefits. The ripe banana is utilized in many ways in the human diet – from simply being peeled and eaten out 0f hand to being sliced and served in fruit cups of salads, sandwiches, custards and gelatins.

A rich source of fructooligosaccharides, a compound that nourishes the friendly bacteria in the colon, making them healthy and enables our body to effectively absorb vitamins and nutrients are bananas. And this increased absorption brings calcium to our bones making them even stronger. It is also greatly commended by doctors for patients whose potassium is low because of its impressive potassium content. Vitamins and minerals are also abundant on banana, giving 123 I. U. of vitamin A for the large size. Banana also has a full range of B vitamins with .07 mg of Thiamine, .15 mg of Riboflavin, .82 mg Niacin, .88 mg vitamin B6, and 29 mcg of Folic Acid.
Even 13.8 mg of vitamin c is present. Bananas also contains three natural sugars – sucrose, fructose and glucose – combined with fiber. It can also help defeat or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions making it a must for our daily diet. A banana provides fiber which can help maintain normal bowel movement. The higher iron content a bananas stimulate the body to produce hemoglobin, which will help fight anemia.

Putting all together the nutritional factors clearly shows that banana is among the healthiest of fruits.







Banana’s Nutritional Facts:

86 calories in a medium
banana
1 g of protein
3 g of dietary fiber
26. 9 g
carbohydrates
23.9 g sugar
467 mg Potassium
43 mg Magnesium
27 mg
Phosphorus
7 mg Calcium
1.3 mcg Selenium
.4 mg Iron
Also detects
amount of zinc, manganese and copper
95 IU vitamin A
11 mg Vitamin
C
22.5 mcg Folate
.7 mcg Vitamin B6
.6 mg Niacin
.31 mg Pantothenic
Acid
.67 IU Vitamin E


Reminder: if ever you have a latex allergy, consult your doctor before eating banana.

A banana is really a natural treatment for different illnesses. It has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrates, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals compared to apple. It is also wealthy in potassium and is also considered one of the best value foods around.

Peel a banana from bottom and you won’t have to pick the little “stringy thing” off of it. That is how the primates eat it. Take your bananas away when you get home from store and if you leave them connected at the stem, it will ripen faster.

Adding bananas to your diet will automatically add instant energy to your day, elevate your mood, relieve your stomach and intestinal ills, and add protection against many other disorders!

Having a Good health while eating more?

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