Can eating more than 6 bananas at once kill you? Article

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stromnessdundee
stromnessdundee Posts: 6 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I love this article although I must confess that it is not a question that ever kept me up at night. :)
Can eating more than six bananas at once kill you? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34225517
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  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
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  • Yi5hedr3
    Yi5hedr3 Posts: 2,696 Member
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    That's a lot of fructose......not good, for sure....
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
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    Yi5hedr3 wrote: »
    That's a lot of fructose......not good, for sure....

    sigh.
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,089 Member
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    Come on...smh
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 8,998 Member
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    Well the article does go on to say that the risk from eating 6 bananas is miniscule unless you have kidney disease.

    If you have kidney disease I doubt it would kill you but I agree it would not be at all healthy for you. Bananas are high in potassium and people with kidney disease should avoid them or eat them in very small quantities because of this.

    But for everyone else - if you really want to eat 6 bananas at once, do so.

    For most people - Probably hard to do so every day and keep within your calorie allowance without displacing so many other foods that your diet becomes nutritionally unbalanced. But you could do it now and then.
    Of course, same could be said of any food with a moderately high calorie content.
  • andrikosDE
    andrikosDE Posts: 383 Member
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    * Trollingtons of the world, uniiiite * <- To be sung in a Morissey falsetto,

    Well, we do know that if you eat Polar Bear liver, you'll die of Vit. A overdose. So, there's that.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
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    Even made it to "More or Less" the BBC's statistical query programme - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032804x

    "How many bananas will kill you?
    There's a belief among some people that too many bananas will kill you. Eat too many and you will overdose on potassium and die. But how many bananas would you need to eat?"
  • kristydi
    kristydi Posts: 781 Member
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    yarwell wrote: »
    Even made it to "More or Less" the BBC's statistical query programme - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032804x

    "How many bananas will kill you?
    There's a belief among some people that too many bananas will kill you. Eat too many and you will overdose on potassium and die. But how many bananas would you need to eat?"

    If potassium overdose is the concern, potatoes would kill you quicker

    Bananas have 358mg of potassium per 100g. Potatoes have 417mg per 100g.

    I really wanna go eat 6 bananas right now, just to be contrary.
  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    edited September 2015
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    Yi5hedr3 wrote: »
    That's a lot of fructose......not good, for sure....

    Obvious troll is obvious.
  • Aurijus
    Aurijus Posts: 6 Member
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    I eat 20 bananas a day sometimes. There's aussie youtuber called "banana girl". She once ate 50 bananas.
  • andrikosDE
    andrikosDE Posts: 383 Member
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    Aurijus wrote: »
    There's aussie youtuber called "banana girl". She once ate 50 bananas.

    Don't make the TrOllP's point for them please...
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
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    You would stand a good chance of choking.

    Probably best to eat one after the other!
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    edited September 2015
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    Peter Siddle, one of our Aussie cricket players eats 15-20 bananas a day!
  • KittensMaster
    KittensMaster Posts: 748 Member
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    6 banana splits?

    Depends on how many sprinkles were used

    Were any of them chocolate chips ?

    The sparkle sugar crystals?

    Too many questions to resolve before a banana fatality can be attributed.
  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
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    If six bananas were lethal, Freelee would be long gone.
  • pinkys008
    pinkys008 Posts: 55 Member
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    Wow. I was half way there. Three bananas in, I had no idea I was approaching the point of no return. Good thing I switched to cottage cheese when I did.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 8,998 Member
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    kristydi wrote: »
    yarwell wrote: »
    Even made it to "More or Less" the BBC's statistical query programme - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032804x

    "How many bananas will kill you?
    There's a belief among some people that too many bananas will kill you. Eat too many and you will overdose on potassium and die. But how many bananas would you need to eat?"

    If potassium overdose is the concern, potatoes would kill you quicker

    Bananas have 358mg of potassium per 100g. Potatoes have 417mg per 100g.

    I really wanna go eat 6 bananas right now, just to be contrary.

    Potatoes probably are on the items to be avoided list for people with kidney disease too then.

    But, like bananas, not relevant for everyone else.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 8,998 Member
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    christinev297 wrote: »
    Peter Siddle, one of our Aussie cricket players eats 15-20 bananas a day!

    That does seem a huge amount.

    But he is a young male over 6 ft tall, with a high activity level, so I guess he can do so and still eat at an appropriate calorie level.

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