Sihaiwang: banana is the most common fruit in our life. It not only tastes good but also has rich nutritional value. It's a fruit suitable for all ages. So what are the benefits and taboos of eating banana? Can banana be eaten on an empty stomach? Let's have a look at it!
Eight benefits of eating bananas every day:
1. Can improve depression
Tryptophan in banana can be converted into serotonin in human body. Serotonin can help relax the body, improve mood and relieve depression.
2. It can relieve premenstrual syndrome
Vitamin B6 in banana can regulate blood sugar level and relieve various symptoms before menstruation.
3. Adjustable blood pressure
Banana with high potassium and low sodium can regulate blood pressure well. The U.S. Food and drug administration has allowed the banana industry to advertise its antihypertensive and stroke benefits.
4. Can improve brain power
A study of 200 students in the UK found that eating fruits with high potassium content, such as bananas, can improve students' attention, learning efficiency and performance.
5. It can prevent constipation
Banana is rich in dietary fiber, which helps to restore intestinal function. Without the aid of cathartic, it can naturally relieve and prevent constipation.
6. It can relieve the hangover
One of the best ways to relieve drunkenness is to drink a banana honey shake. Banana can protect the stomach, honey can improve the blood sugar level, milk can help relieve dehydration after drinking.
7. Preventable heartburn
Anti acid can easily lead to heartburn. Eating a banana can relieve discomfort.
8. Can prevent pregnancy and vomiting
Pregnant women eat a banana between meals to help prevent vomiting.
Four taboos to eat bananas:
1. Immature bananas are prone to constipation
Bananas that are not ripe will have astringent taste, mainly because of the large amount of tannic acid contained in bananas. When banana ripens, although it can't taste astringency, tannin still exists. Tannic acid has a very strong astringent effect. It can form excrement into dry and hard excrement, thus causing constipation. The most typical is the elderly, children eat bananas, not only can not help defecate, but also can have obvious constipation.
2. Excessive consumption of banana may cause imbalance in the proportion of trace elements
Some people eat bananas a lot at a time. I don't know. It's very bad for your health. Banana contains more magnesium, potassium and other elements. Although these mineral elements are necessary for human health, if they are ingested too much in a short time, it will cause a sharp increase in the content of magnesium and potassium in the blood, resulting in the imbalance of the proportion of potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium and other elements in the body, which is harmful to health. In addition, eating more bananas will cause gastrointestinal dysfunction and excessive mood fluctuation due to the greatly reduced gastric acid secretion. Therefore, banana should not be overeated.
3. Bananas should not be refrigerated in the refrigerator
The storage temperature of bananas is generally 11-13 ℃, while that of fruits and vegetables in refrigerators is generally about 4 ℃, up to 8 ℃. If banana is placed in this environment, it is easy to be frozen, and it will turn black in one day, and the quality will become soft and rotten, and the taste will become bad, even there will be patches or rotten.
4. Avoid eating bananas on an empty stomach
Although bananas can be used as food, they cannot be eaten in large quantities on an empty stomach. Because banana contains a lot of potassium, phosphorus and magnesium, for normal people, a lot of potassium and magnesium intake can make the body's sodium and calcium lose balance, which is harmful to health. So don't eat too many bananas on an empty stomach.