What are the disadvantages of eating too much banana? Can you eat unripe bananas?

As we all know, when the banana is immature, its skin is green. When you peel off the skin, it is too astringent to swallow. When the banana is ripe, the astringency is completely gone, and it is soft, sweet, and loved by children and the elderly. Today we will learn in detail about the harm of eating too much banana to our body.

Contents of this article

1. What are the disadvantages of eating too much banana?

2. Can you eat unripe bananas?

3. Who should not eat bananas?

What are the disadvantages of eating too much banana?

Eating too much banana can cause diarrhea.

Plantain and banana belong to the same family, have similar appearances, and have certain medicinal value. Plantain leaves have been used to prevent plague for thousands of years. Chinese herbal medicine can be obtained locally, and modern medical pharmacological research shows that banana leaves are a broad-spectrum antibacterial and antiviral drug. It has inhibitory and killing effects on many viruses and bacteria, and has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on respiratory diseases. Plantain roots have the effects of clearing heat, quenching thirst, diuresis, and detoxification. It can treat epidemic fever, edema, beriberi, hematuria, hemorrhage, carbuncle, furuncle, and erysipelas.

The nutritional value of plantains and bananas is similar. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, both have the effect of moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements. However, bananas are cool in nature, while plantains are neutral in nature. People with cold stomachs should not eat too much plantains. Generally, plantains are more suitable for the elderly.

Can you eat unripe bananas?

As we all know, when the banana is immature, the skin is green. After peeling the skin, it is too astringent to swallow. The ripe banana has no astringency at all, and is soft, glutinous, sweet, and loved by children and the elderly. Banana is a tropical and subtropical fruit. In order to facilitate storage and transportation, when picking bananas, you can't wait for it to ripen, but you have to pick it and put it into storage when the banana skin is green. The bananas we eat in the north are ripened after being accelerated. The astringency of raw bananas comes from the large amount of tannic acid contained in bananas. When the banana is ripe, although the astringency can no longer be tasted, the tannic acid component still exists. Tannic acid has a very strong astringent effect, which can make feces dry and hard, thus causing constipation. The most typical example is that after the elderly and children eat bananas, not only can it not help defecation, but it can cause obvious constipation.

Who can't eat bananas?

1. People with hypertension, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, weak spleen and stomach, loose stools and diarrhea should not eat too much or eat raw bananas.

2. Patients with acute and chronic nephritis and renal insufficiency should avoid eating bananas. Bananas contain a lot of sodium salt. Eating a lot of bananas, like taking in sodium salt, will cause sodium and water retention in the patient's blood, aggravate edema, increase the burden on the kidneys, and worsen the condition.

3. Bananas cannot be eaten on an empty stomach. It is best to eat them after a meal or when you are not hungry.

4. People with weak constitution should try to eat less bananas.

5. People with cold stomach, cold deficiency, nephritis, and swollen feet during pregnancy should not eat raw bananas.