What do you know about the Japanese banana diet?
You eat 1-2 bananas for breakfast and then healthy lunch and dinner and light snacks, can this really work? I understand what you are saying, I am just wondering how bananas are supposed to be the miracle food here.
A banana contains a lot of dietary fiber so that you can have regular bowel movements and its possible that it makes your boobs bigger.
I have heard of a very effective diet going on in Japan involving bananas I am not to sure what it is can someone please explain?
I just heard about this today too. it is like you have a banana or 2 with room temp water for breakfast, eat what you want for lunch and dinner till ur full but, not stuffed.
http://morningbanana.com/
I heard about it on the morning news. Apparently you eat a banana for breakfast with a large glass of room temp water.
Then you eat whatever you want for lunch and dinner, no snacks, no dessert, you don’t eat after 8 pm and you have to be in bed by midnight. Has anyone tried this and does it work ?
Of course it does. Have you ever seen a fat monkey? LOL
If you are allergic to banana then you suffer from allergies Type 1 or contact allergy. The protein found in banana called chitinase, causes the immune system in some individuals to overreact and treat the protein as harmful to your body.
The reason the body overacts to certain foods is not clear and more studies are needed. The protein called chitinase is also found in avocado and kiwi fruit.
Bananas originated in Malaysia around 2,000 B.C. and then spread throughout the Philippines and India. Alexander the Great recorded them being grown in India in 327 B.C.
Today bananas are grown in most tropical and subtropical regions around the world with the main commercial producers located in Central America. With the development of rapid transportation bananas have become widely available.
To be allergic to banana your body’s immune system must be overreacting to the banana protein chitinase. Another cause of the allergic reaction could be due to intolerance to bananas and not a true allergy reaction. This intolerance could be caused by Vaso-active amines.
Vaso-active amines are histamine like substances that occur naturally in foods and can trigger symptoms that can mimic allergy reactions. Vaso-active amines are called histamine, phenyl-ethylamine, serotonin, tyramine and dopamine.
Serotonin is found in banana, and the symptom of serotonine ingestion include cramping, flushing of the skin, headache, and heart palpitations. The severity of the symptoms is dependent on the amount the histamine like substance ingested and the lack of the histamine metabolizing enzyme diamine oxidase in your system.
Most food allergy or food intolerance reactions usually happen within a few minutes to a few hours after eating the bananas. Most mild to moderate reactions last less than a day and can involve a rash on the skin, cramps, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, runny nose, watery eyes, wheezing and coughing.
For those individually that are allergic to banana symptoms may not appear, or the symptoms may be too mild to be noticed,, the first few times bananas are eaten. Sensitivity can develop over time and can start out very mild and slowly develop into life-threatening allergic reactions.
A cross-reaction is also a very common problem in individuals who are allergic to banana. If a person suffers from an allergic reaction to the protein in bananas a possibility to being allergic to the same proteins in latex is very high. Other foods to watch out for cross-reaction are avocado, kiwi and chestnut.
Always consult your doctor before using this information.
This Article is nutritional in nature and is not to be construed as medical advice.
David Cowley
http://www.articlesbase.com/non-fiction-articles/help-i-am-allergic-to-banana-140595.html
I dont really like nuts and want something in my banana bread. Like chocolate chips would be nice etc etc.
What else should I put in banana bread to sub for walnuts?
Pecans!!!!!
People Arriving in Uganda for the first time will be struck by the sheer volume of Bananas that dot the side of the road on bicycles, piled high in trucks on their way to market, eventually creating the mountains that adorn them. The banana, Musa accuminata and musa balbisiana, is perhaps one of the most important crops grown in Uganda .
The Great Lakes region has become the second centre worldwide for the world’s largest herb second to India – never mind the fact that India’s population is approximately fifty times that of Uganda!
Uganda alone produces more than 11 million tones per year, the majority of it locally consumed. Though hard to measure, it is estimated that the average Ugandan consumes more than 400kilos of bananas each year!
There are many theories that try to explain the origin of the Banana. What is Known is that musa accuminata originated in Malaysia and musa balbisiana came from India .At some point, perhaps seven well before Mohammed’s followers took refuge in Abyssinia the present Ethiopia during the sixth century, these two species of banana mixed and created a wide diversity of different species.
The majority consensus is that the banana was brought to East Africa via the Swahili culture’s trade routes from the orient to the East African coast. This also partially fits with the Baganda’s belief that their ancestral father, Kinto brought the banana from foreign lands trekking towards the Great Lake from the Northeast.
Historians clearly acknowledge that the rise of the Baganda civilization, which endured centuries of propensity was largely due to the pivotal role the banana played in political, social, cultural, spiritual, medicinal and economic element of Baganda. Since then, the banana has become a cultural core of many different people throughout Uganda particularly the southwest
To the untrained eye, there is the Yellow dessert banana, the big ones, and the small ones. There is also matooke, which most people commonly mistake for plantain. In truth, there is more than a hundred different species of banana in Uganda, a dozen of, which are endemic, therefore, unique to this particular region.
The Banyankole people of Uganda believe that the ownership of a banana plantation is a symbol of a man’s passage to manhood and thus his capacity to marry .Social prestige is derived from the ‘proper’ state which he keeps his plantation it must be ‘smart’ . A thick wad of steamed matooke on a dinner plate signifies that the meal is worthy of being called ‘food’.
One Muganda man describes matooke(green bananas) as,”….a special food. When you eat it, it is soft and hot; it feels nice in the mouth. It makes me think that I am eating the best. If there is a special function, and there is no matooke, I would not go.
The taste of matooke is smooth in the mouth, in the throat, and I feel satisfied when I eat it.” Though many foreigners beg to differ regarding these perceptions, the majority of the people who have perceptions, the majority of the people who have been eating it for more than a thousand years vouch for its quality!
The edible part of the banana is used not only as food, but also as ceremonial gifts and for making locally distilled alcohol called waragi. The actual plant and its parts passes unique qualities and traits.
Many cultural beliefs are derived from them. The banana plant is used in a vast bed of local agro-ecological knowledge including medicinal remedies.
Ailments for which banana plant and it’s various parts is a remedy include, upset stomachs, swelling, ulcers laceration, pain reduction, burns, for inducing labour, for expelling the placenta when it has failed to come out after giving birth, reducing flatulence, curing yellow fever, and even expelling evil spirits which have invaded someone’s body.
However, don’t expect to find these remedies at Dr. Stockley’s surgery.
When you stroll through the local market and set your eyes upon another stock of Matooke,(Green Bananas) take a moment to reflect on its cultural and historic significance in the land you have now set foot in.
Uganda sits on an elevated plateau, not one of the most agriculturally rich regions of the world. With two natural rain seasons, volcanic soils, and many other positive factors agricultural production should excel. However currently, the banana faces overwhelming threats from pests and diseases.
The traditional banana growing areas of the northern lakeshore are no longer capable of producing banana as they once did due to environmental degredation and socio-cultural debilitating constraint, such as the inequitable way women are faced with too much work ad few livelihood strategies to provide for their families. HIV takes its toll on the labour force; soil erosion and genetic mining exacerbate the situation.
Pests such as nematodes and weevils stunt the growth of the Banana. Fusarium wilt, black and yellow sigatoka disease, and the horrid bacteria wilt devastate banana plantations across the region, threatening the existence of countless species of banana.
Though the growing areas in the southwest have not been hit as hard yet, their time is coming .The banana plant and its rich genetic diversity are endangered as never before. Collective action and environmental rehabilitation are required to reverse this devastating trend, otherwise, the globe could lose one of its most unique resources and Uganda may face unprecedented food shortages. Such a tragedy must be avoided!
As you chow down on a bogoya, throw some sukaali ndiizi(sweet yellow bananas) into your picnic lunch, or munch on some Gonja at the Karuma pit stop on your way to Arua, remember, you are biting into Uganda’s history and future.
Tanah Hadijah
http://www.articlesbase.com/travel-articles/banana-in-uganda-more-than-just-cereal-topping-64413.html
What has the highest weight? A ripe banana or a not yet ripe banana?(We’re talking about the same banana)
Why do I ask? – If I buy bananas, I have to weigh them. There are different kinds of bananas in the same box, ripe ones and not ripe ones. I just want to save some money
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I cannot go to the store and find out, because every banana is different. I’m talking about one and the same banana, but in a different period. Does it gain weight while riping, or lose weight while riping.
Bananas lose a minimal amount of weight as they ripen, but buying riper bananas won’t save you much money – if any. Grocery stores usually sell bananas that are all around the same stage of ripeness, so the margin of gain is even less.
I have three ripe banana’s, besides banana bread which I always make what would be a good banana dessert I could make? Any recipes with cool whip?
You can never go wrong with homemade banana pudding made from scratch!
It is oh so good served warm or cold!
Would banana pudding taste good as a layer in a white cake? (vanilla pudding with fresh bananas)
I am really not a good baker and have basically only made cupcakes, but it is my fathers birthday and I am baking him a cake for his birthday and I really want it to be good. Will this work?
I didn’t want to go with just a basic white cake so i figured this might give it a little funk. Any advice or recipes would be great.
Thx so much!
It is a very good idea. A couple of suggestions – make a sheet cake and poke (1/2 inch diameter) holes in it…then pour your prepared pudding on top.
It will seep into the holes and make your cake moist. It is also a very pretty preparation. Also, if you are putting bananas into the pudding, note that they may brown slightly when exposed to the air like apples.
Bananas are most likely native to tropical Asia, but are widely cultivated. The banana is often referred to as a tree yet the plants have a palm like aspect with large leaves, the overlapping bases of which form the so-called false trunk.
The banana plants grow 10 to 26 feet in height and belong to the family Musaceae. They are greedy feeders – they have to be, considering the weight of fruit that is regularly removed from the clump.
Bananas are one of the most popular and most consumed fruits in the world. They are available year round in most areas and are usually fairly inexpensive. They are the fourth largest fruit crop in the world, after grapes, citrus fruits and apples.
Bananas are the fifth most important agricultural commodity in world trade. It is a major staple food crop for many millions of people in areas of Central, East and West Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Bananas are elliptically shaped fruits packaged by nature with a firm, creamy flesh. Their natural wrapping has many extra uses.
The advantage of bananas over other crops is that they do not need to be planted anew each year. Large multinational corporations control a large percentage of the banana trade; Dole and Chiquita together control more than 50%.
Bananas are the most popular fruit in the United States. Americans eat an average of 28 pounds of bananas per person per year. They really are a perfect part of your diet!
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