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Top 20 Nourishing Facts About Bananas

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February 11, 2015
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Let this day be tasty and sunny as bananas! Here we present twenty curious facts about these fruits.
1. Bananas are the best-selling items at Walmart!
Cheap, healthy and tasty – the right choice!

 
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2. Bananas contain a natural chemical that can make a person happy – The same chemical found in Prozac.
Just have a break and eat a couple of them right now!

 
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3. Eating 50 bananas will give you the same dose of radiation as 1 dental xray.
Yeah, bananas can be used a measure unit for radioactive radiation because they themselves contain radioactive isotopes.

 
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4. Just two bananas provide enough energy for an intense 90 minutes workout.
Do you remember how apes are strong? This is probably why.

 
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5. Bananas can help prevent and cure hangovers.
Just like any other fruit with high content of potassium.

 
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6. Yellow bananas are actually a mutant strain that was discovered in 1836.
The original bananas were not sweet at all and instead of being yellow were red and green.

 
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7. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
Well, bananas could a great symbolic birthday gift!

 
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8. It would take at least 480 bananas to die of of potassium overdose.
But he would ever accept the challenge and experience that?

 
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9. Eating bananas is a natural cure to reduce the effects of stress and anxiety.
That’s why so many people of the world love bananas and say it’s their favorite fruit.

 
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10. A study says that women who eat bananas at time of conception are most likely to have a boy.
So help the scientists and prove they are right!

 
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11. Bananas have no fat, cholesterol or sodium.
Instead it is a good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin C, Potassium and Manganese, and a perfect source of Vitamin B6.

 
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12. A cluster of bananas is called a hand. A single banana is called a finger.
Does it mean my hand is a bunch of bananas? )

 
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13. Bananas are known to lower the risk of heart attacks and strokes, as well as decrease your risk of getting cancer, according to the FDA.
It’s another reason to add bananas to your diet and experiment with banana recipes.

 
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14. Slipping on bananas was an actual health hazard in the early 1900s.
This fact even influenced the American legislation and gave birth to new laws (“sliding act”).

 
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15. The fruits grow off the main stems in large clusters that can weigh over 100 pounds, with up to 400 individual bananas per cluster!
God blessed tropics with bananas!

 
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16. Bananas are composed of 75% water.
Still they seem to be dry and rather firm.

 
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17. Today bananas are grown in over 100 countries.
By the way, there are more than 300 species of the fruit.

 
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18. The Banana Club Museum, located on Highway 111 in Mecca, Calif. (just south of Palm Springs), houses the world’s largest collection devoted to any one fruit.
There you may see over 17 thousand different banana items.

 
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19. Bananas are picked being green and hard.
They are stored in special chambers using ethylene to ripen on.

 
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20. Bananas “trees” are actually the world’s tallest herbaceous plant.
Their height may reach 20 ft. And they have no wooden stem.

 
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