Banana facts-20 Interesting and nutritional facts

Bananas are one of our source of food.Here,you can learn interesting information about the banana plant its vitamins and impotant benefits.They are a cheap fruit and great source of nutrients like potassium. Here are some amazing banana facts

Bananas are a natural source of potassium.

Large-size bananas have high amounts of vitamin A in them.

A banana tree is not really a fruit tree, but an herb, with a “tree trunk” that is a stem of tightly wrapped leaves. 

There are over 400 varieties of bananas, but most of the bananas found at the supermarket are the yellow Cavendish bananas. 

The inside of the banana skin when rubbed on a mosquito bite is found to reduce the swelling and irritation.  

Bananas contain 15% of your daily recommended Vitamin C

The rhizomes, or roots, of banana plants can be hundreds of years old.

More than 100 billion bananas are eaten every year in the world

51 percent of bananas are eaten for breakfast at home.

 n 2001, there were more than 300 banana-related accidents in Britain, most involving people slipping on skins.

In Eastern Africa you can buy banana beer. This beer is brewed from bananas.

 Bananas contain around 75% water.

 There are thousands of varieties of wild banana

 If you are under 40 you probably haven’t ever eaten the banana that inspired “banana-flavored” candy, because it almost went extinct.

 Over 96% of American households purchase bananas at least once each month.

 Fibre taken from banana plants can be used to make clothes.

 Humans have grown bananas for thousands of years.

 Over twenty percent of the world’s bananas are grown in India

 Bananas are radioactive. Each one contains about half a gram of radioactive potassium and the fruit is sometimes used to explain quantities of radiation.

 The term “banana” is also used as the common name for the plants which produce the fruit.