Nutritional Value

• High source of Carbohydrate. Unripe bananas contain resistant starch which acts like fiber improving gut health and healthy blood sugar levels.
• Good source of Potassium, Vitamin B6, and Vitamin C which helps to lower blood pressure, provide upto 33% of Daily Value of Vitamin and is good for bones and skin respectively.
• It improves digestion and potassium content in them improves heart health.

Storage and Uses

• Best way to store bananas is to buy them when they are green and keep them in room temperature for couple of days.
• Bananas are alkaline in nature, so you can have them when you have acid reflux or heartburn, it neutralize the acid in the stomach. It is best eaten fresh or in juiced form. Beverages, chips, various other dishes are made from banana.

Note

• Banana is also known as Happy Fruit as they have tryptophan which get converted into serotonin in the body that improves your mood, relax your body and makes you feel happier.
• The dark-brown patches on the skin of bananas is healthier than the normal bananas without patches. Those brown patches on their skin produce a substance called tumor necrosis factor which can eliminate abnormal cells and reduce risk of cancer.