Comment by desktopninja 6 hours ago
Learnt from my grandmother to eat plenty bananas before bedtime. It helped with my asthma and swear too that it did wonders for my sleep.
Usually had it with a hot curry at dinner time or dessert (sliced bananas, cubed apples and evaparoted milk.)
Bananas aren't high in potassium. That's a myth. A banana has 450mg and a potato has 650mg.
Zuckerberg isn't rich. That's a myth. He had $200B and Elon has $450B.
Adding to that bananas are high in sugar. 12 to 15 grams each
Potatoes have almost double the glycemic index of a banana, meaning that the impact on metabolism and insulin production is greater and faster.
Two bananas to a potato (I assume we’re talking something like a russet, not a little red potato?) sounds generous to the potato, if we’re talking volume equivalence.
A potato’s a meal. A banana’s a lightish snack.
Sadly I don’t think French fries have the same effect.
you can most definitely change the levels of components in a fried food.
the oil gets 'dirty' from extended use in frying. Why is it dirty? It's not dirt, and it's not oil breakdown (in most cases).
The oil is drawing components from the food into itself.
Forget the frying for a second; most fries are parboiled or blanched -- this also leeches material away from the vegetable, this time it leaves with the water used for blanching.
A french fry is delicious, but it's different than a potato -- even if it's made from one.
I don't know about the case of potassium specifically, but in general I thought that the bioavailability of elements can vary with different types of cooking?
...plenty? That's at least more than 2 for me. Can you eat 3+ bananas in one sitting? Are we talking really small, average or big bananas?
Its either sweeter or creamier. I always get evaporated and condensed mixed up.
I knew a guy that would eat a banana per beer. He would portion the bananas out beforehand, so we could tell he was serious when he showed up to a stag-do with two bunches!