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5 cool facts about bananas

5 cool facts about bananas

Do you prefer to eat it a bit greenish or do you go for overripe with brown spots on the skin? We put 5 fun facts about the crooked handsome in a row for you.

2 bananas

Provide you with enough energy to keep exercising for a long time. After consuming 2 pieces, you can exercise for about 90 minutes, researchers calculated. Nice, such an energy shot.

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Overripe =profit

For your immune system. A banana helps you to stay healthy anyway, eating it increases your white blood cells and an overripe copy helps you make up to 8x more of those white blood cells. People with high blood pressure, heartburn and fatigue also benefit from eating an overripe.

B6 bomb

So a good bomb. Hardly any other fruit is as rich in vitamin B6 as the banana. This vitamin helps, among other things, regulate your digestion and maintain your blood sugar level.

Melatonin

Do you ever have trouble falling asleep? An American specialist recommends eating food in the evening that naturally contains melatonin, the substance that helps you – yes – to fall asleep. Bananas contain melatonin, just like tomatoes, corn and cherries.

Tri-color ice cream

Making your own ice cream is fun and delicious and with this recipe for a water ice cream with blueberry, strawberry and banana, that already sunny mood will get a boost! Also great to make with (your) children of course. And perfect as treat after barbecuing in the backyard this summer.