Does anyone NOT eat bananas?

FunkyTobias wrote: »

fishshark wrote: »

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Adc7225 wrote: »

Interesting. . . I love bananas but don't eat them very often after a debate about them when I was in the hospital. It was thought that I was backed up (according to them) more than likely from eating bananas. My system went from about once a day then, to since giving up bananas I go 3 times a day!

@Adc7225 your post is good example we all can respond differently to the same food and why social media is not a good and safe source of eating advice. What that may be fine for one to eat may be bad for another.

draxe.com/banana-nutrition/

This seems to be a more or less balanced article but we can the carb/fiber ratio does not make them a weight loss food of choice for some perhaps.

Please stop linking to quacks.

hes must seriously hate bananas

He was probably accosted by this guy

this is aaaammmaazing babahah. as well as your profile pic.

Christine_72 wrote: »

I love bananas, and usually have one a few times a week, I add them to smoothies or ice cream. I stick to the 70ish grammers, and only like them if they are yellow and green.

Christine_72 wrote: »

I love bananas, and usually have one a few times a week, I add them to smoothies or ice cream. I stick to the 70ish grammers, and only like them if they are yellow and green.

I only like them yellow speckled lightly with tiny brown spots. Like I said it is a very tiny window. They go from that to overripe in a flash.

If a whole banana in a smoothie is too sweet, try half a banana -- you get the flavor without so much sweetness. I like to cut them in half and freeze them for use in smoothies.

I slice and freeze them, and add them to smoothies.

I toss one in every smoothie. That sure beats that half gallon of ice cream I used to slug down my fat throat after lifting...you know...for "muscle recovery"...

I eat one banana every day as part of my breakfast..

http://readanddigest.com/health-benefits-of-bananas/

I used to hate them when I was a kid. Now as long as they're not too green or too terribly ripe I will eat them, usually one every day in fact. I find that eating one around 9:30 helps keep my blood sugar even, because if I eat a very light breakfast (usually not hungry that early) and then don't eat lunch until 11:45 or noon I get a big blood sugar spike and then crash. Eating a banana mid morning has helped me avoid this usually. I also like them because they are easy to transport, take about 5 minutes or less to eat and are very sweet for when I'm craving something sweet.

For anyone that has Oral Allergy Syndrom, there's a pretty decent closed Facebook group that has quite a few members with it. Seems like several on this thread might.

Christine_72 wrote: »

rosebarnalice wrote: »

I have never liked them--even as a kid, but would tolerate them occasionally in a dessert or smoothie if someone else made it.

Then I traveled to central America and learned what they do to the environment and the laborers who work the plantations. Haven't had so much as a bite of one in 15 years.

Thankfully my bananas all come from Queensland

Now we have a Free Trade Agreement with USA could import ours!

Love bananas. Eat two everyday. Great source of potassium.

6pkdreamer wrote: »

Christine_72 wrote: »

6pkdreamer wrote: »

Christine_72 wrote: »

rosebarnalice wrote: »

I have never liked them--even as a kid, but would tolerate them occasionally in a dessert or smoothie if someone else made it.

Then I traveled to central America and learned what they do to the environment and the laborers who work the plantations. Haven't had so much as a bite of one in 15 years.

Thankfully my bananas all come from Queensland

Now we have a Free Trade Agreement with USA could import EXPORT ours!

oh jeez I hope not! Why import something that grows in our own backyard. Stupid Government! !!

...I meant EXPORT of course. (typo)

Haha rereading your post, I get that now

I have no objections to bananas and I think they can fit right in to a healthy diet if you like them.

Very rarely I will get a craving for one and then I only like the ones that are just barely ripe, slightly green. I usually find myself wanting one when I've been super busy and waited too long to eat and I'm just ravenous! A very ripe banana by itself is sickeningly sweet and overly mushy to me, though oddly I do like a lot of sweet things with bananas as ingredients, like shakes, banana bread, ice cream, etc.

I would eat one as often as I wanted if only I liked them more. As long as they fit in my calories, it's all good!

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beautifulsparkles wrote: »

arditarose wrote: »

beautifulsparkles wrote: »

arditarose wrote: »

beautifulsparkles wrote: »

arditarose wrote: »

I don't. I think they're too high calorie. I'd rather eat a piece of meat, can of tuna, small salad, 2 oreos...etc.

I wish meat was as cheap to buy as bananas!

Gah I barely even look at the price on food anymore. Everything I love is just so expensive.

I've looked at your instagram, I get so much food envy!

Are there any other foods you don't tend to eat?

I practice volumetrics so I tend not to eat too many calorie dense foods on a daily basis because I like to stuff my face with a lot of food for less.

I need to figure out how to do that because I want to eat all the time!

It can take a little practice. The easiest thing is to replace grains with double veg and an extra ounce or so of lean meat if you can fit it. I don't cook with oil or butter so I have room for cheese or extra meat instead. I'll look at a food like an egg for example...2 eggs, 140 calories. I'm getting fat and protein there. But if I break up these macros and get my protein from egg whites, 140 calories of egg whites has a lot more volume than 140 calories from 2 whole eggs. Now I can get my fat from entirely different food source. I have room for avocado, or bacon, etc.

I need to look up Volumetrics. For my lunches at work I usually tend to eat this way. I can easily eat 3-4 cups of salad, with 4-6 ounces of chicken breast, salad dressing, & maybe a few croutons.

beautifulsparkles wrote: »

I've been adding them to as a base or main ingrediant to smoothies- they taste too sweet/sugary. I definately prefer the savoury stuff these days, I don't think I enjoy many fruits.

Banana/2=sugar/2 ie don't put as much in!