What should you pay attention to when eating bananas? Four taboos of eating bananas

Many people love to eat bananas, but there are many things to be careful about when eating bananas. Here are 4 taboos about eating bananas. Don't eat bananas that are in this situation.

1. Unripe bananas can cause constipation

As we all know, when bananas are not ripe, their skin is green. When you peel off the skin, it is too astringent to swallow. When bananas are ripe, the astringency is completely gone, and they are soft, sweet, and loved by children and the elderly. Bananas are tropical and subtropical fruits. In order to facilitate storage and transportation, when picking bananas, you cannot wait for them to ripen, but must pick them and store them when the banana skin is green.

The bananas we eat in the north are ripened after being accelerated. The astringency of raw bananas comes from the large amount of tannic acid contained in bananas. When bananas are ripe, although the astringency is no longer tasted, the tannic acid component is still there. Tannic acid has a very strong astringent effect and can make feces dry and hard, thus causing constipation. The most typical example is that after eating bananas, the elderly and children will not only fail to help defecate, but may suffer from obvious constipation.

2. Eating too much bananas can cause an imbalance in the proportion of trace elements

Bananas are fragrant and delicious fruits, so some people eat a lot of bananas at one time. Little do they know that this is very bad for health. Bananas contain a lot of magnesium, potassium and other elements. Although these mineral elements are necessary for human health, if you take too much of them in a short period of time, it will cause a sharp increase in the magnesium and potassium content in the blood, causing an imbalance in the proportion of potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium and other elements in the body, which is harmful to health. In addition, eating too many bananas will cause gastrointestinal dysfunction and excessive mood swings due to a significant reduction in gastric acid secretion. Therefore, bananas should not be eaten excessively.

3. Bananas should not be refrigerated.

As we all know, bananas are picked when they are 60% to 70% ripe, because they ripen very quickly. If they are picked when they are ripe, they will not taste good and will not look fresh. So after bananas are picked, the temperature requirement for storage is also relatively high, generally 11-13 degrees Celsius, while fruits and vegetables are generally stored at around 4 degrees Celsius in the refrigerator, and up to 8 degrees Celsius. If bananas are placed in such an environment, they are easily frozen, and will turn black in one day, and the texture will become soft and rotten, the taste will also deteriorate, and even spots or rot will appear.

4. Avoid eating bananas on an empty stomach

We say that bananas can be used as food, but you cannot eat them in large quantities on an empty stomach. This is because bananas contain a lot of potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium. For normal people, consuming a large amount of potassium and magnesium can cause the sodium and calcium in the body to lose balance, which is not good for health. So don't eat too many bananas on an empty stomach.