Are bananas fattening especially the ripe ones?
Bananas are eaten ripe and unripe. Unripe bananas are usually called plantains.
Banana can be a vegetable when its unripe and fruit when it is ripe. The way you detect if a banana is ripe is to look for slight black patches on the yellow or green skin. Black patches a sure indication of ripeness.
Coming to the question of whether bananas are fattening? I will answer with a simple truth.
Nothing eaten in its natural form is every going harm you, no way would you ever gain weight eating bananas as a raw fruit.
As a vegetable, unripe bananas are fried as snacks in some parts of the world. That's making a natural food unnatural, so that toxic and fattening.
Top 10 reasons why raw ripe bananas are not fattening
Each bananas to your heart's content, but eat it raw as a fruit. Don't make a milk shake out of it or a banana split full of ice cream. The reason you put on weight is because of the milk and ice cream though it always banana which gets the blame. Here are top 10 reasons why bananas are not fattening
- Banana is a fruit, no fruits are fattening in their natural state
- Banana is not going to be stored in your body as fat because it is easily digested
- Banana can quench your hunger while give you tons of energy in the form of glucose, it is high in calorie but being natural it is not stored as fat. So stop worrying about calories.
- Banana should only be eaten on empty stomach just like any other fruit. Mixing banana with a cooked food is the reason why it does not get digested, the blame falls on the fruit always, and cooked food is the culprit.
- Bananas take 45 minutes to be digested as compared to 15 minutes for other fruits. This is the reason why people say they feel heavy after eating bananas. Don't worry, after 45 minutes you will light and energetic thanks to the high energy in bananas.
- A breakfast of bananas and other fruits will reduce your weight in a week's time. Proof enough that bananas are not fattening.
- Bananas do not contain the toxic wastes present in meat and cooked food. No waste = No fat.
- Bananas are organic, living food. Organic food is never fattening.
- Bananas are a rich source of Vitamin C, Vitamin A, abundant with minerals like zinc and potassium and enzymes. None of these make you fat, just healthy.
- Bananas are a great source of fiber and helps constipation relief or detoxification. Thus it helps weight loss not weigh gain.
How should you eat bananas?
Eat bananas raw and on an empty stomach. It is very important that follow this, the reason is simple.
Bananas takes 45 minutes to get digested. Cooked food and diary products can take 3-8 hours to get digested. Taking bananas with cooked food will cause bananas to lie in your stomach for close to 8 hours causing putrefication.
So after you eat bananas leave a gap of 45 minutes before you start eating another cooked food. Fruits can be eaten anytime with fruits.
This means that you should not do the following
- Eat bananas which cereals
- Eat bananas with ice cream
- Eat bananas after a meal of cooked food
- Cook bananas in any way
Given that you follow the given steps you will never need to worry about any weight gain.
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