Why does my tongue hurt after eating a banana?

Banana is a very common fruit in our lives. It tastes delicious and has high nutritional value. It is loved by many people. However, some people experience tongue pain when eating bananas. The cause of this abnormality is not very obvious. If you don’t know the cause, you will definitely be worried that there is something wrong with your body. So, why does your tongue hurt when you eat bananas? Let’s take a look at the reasons below.

The main reason is that bananas are not fully ripe when they are picked. Mainly for the convenience of transportation, unripe bananas need to be ripened in cellars or warehouses with ethylene. These are the bananas we eat now. The dietary fiber in unripe bananas has not been completely saccharified, and it will make your tongue spicy when you eat them. This is how you feel now!

Banana Ripening Method

Banana Ripening Method 1: Apple Ripening Method

Use a cardboard box or plastic bag, add 2-3 ripe apples (or 1 ripe papaya) to bananas, seal it with a plastic bag, and ripen it in 2/3 days at room temperature (do not place it in an air-conditioned room). The banana skin will turn slightly yellow and the flesh will be sweet and delicious. After leaving it alone for the second night, the bananas didn't turn much yellow, but they were already soft and very sweet.

Banana ripening method 2: Rice ripening method

Pack the bananas in a plastic bag (no need to seal) and place them in a rice storage container. They will ripen in 2 to 3 days and have a slight rice aroma. Or put green bananas and rice into a plastic bag, wrap the banana heads with paper towels and seal it.

Banana ripening method three: banana peel ripening method

Use a fruit foam box, put some yellow ripe bananas or yellow banana peels after eating the plantains, seal them together, place them at normal temperature, and they will ripen in 2/3 days. If you put green fruits (bananas, papayas, tomatoes, soursop, egg apples, mangoes, persimmons, etc.) in the sun for a few hours and then follow the above method, they will ripen faster.

Banana ripening method 4: Chemical ripening

If conditions permit, you can buy ethephon and use it on bananas at home, and the bananas will ripen easily. Experts have also proven that ethephon can be used and is harmless to the human body.