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Comment by desktopninja

3 months 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.)

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!

Bananas aren't high in potassium. That's a myth. A banana has 450mg and a potato has 650mg.

  • Bananas have a decent amount of potassium per serving. A lot more than many foods. That’s not a myth.

    The only myth is that bananas are a unique source of potassium. A lot of foods have similar or more amounts of potassium per serving or by weight.

  • Come to think of it, you’re right. It was when he showed up with a big ol’ bag full of potatoes that we knew it was gonna be a serious party.

  • 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.

    • Per 100g ground beef is 300+mg of potassium

      No carbs, no sugars, no fiber induced bloating, could easily get more than 100g into a meal

      My understanding is potassium also competes with salt in the body

What it won't help with is mosquitos. They LOVE banana-flavored people.

Learned it from first hand experience.

  • I believe this too! My brother is not a fan bananas and barely registers mosquito bites. Me on the other hand am pursued mercilessly. Could also be we have different blood types but the immediate evidence we've seen is bananas :)

    • The trick is to offer bananas to everyone and refrain from eating. Then the mosquitos will prefer the other people and leave you for later.

What do you get out of evaporated milk that you can't get from milk?

  • Its either sweeter or creamier. I always get evaporated and condensed mixed up.

    • Condensed milk is evaporated milk + added sugar.

      I sometimes buy evaporated because it is a big time-saver, but never sweetened condensed because it's quick and easy to add sugar myself, and leaves me in control of how much relative to the other ingredients.

      Both are thicker, creamier, and even sweeter than milk - because even without the added sugar the natural sweetness of the milk is concentrated by the reduction, removing all that water.

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...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?