Bananas are the "super fruit" no one knows about. They are affordable, require no washing unless you want to eat the outer skin as some Indian dishes do, and they can be eaten raw. Besides that there are numerous dietary benefits and a number of surprising uses. For the average banana of the bunch (7" long and 126 grams in weight) there is only 110 calories, 400mg of Potassium, 4g of dietary Fiber, 14.8g of natural Sugar, 1g of Protein, 16% of daily recommended Vitamin C intake and 20% of Vitamin B6's daily recommended value plus .4g of Iron. Potassium is very beneficial to ingest. A regul...
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