Potassium content of a banana

Potassium is a very important trace element for the human body. It plays the role of maintaining the nervous system, maintaining the myocardium, and maintaining the normal water content of cells. It is very important to ensure that there is sufficient potassium in the body. Bananas are fruits with relatively high potassium content. If you are deficient in potassium, you can eat more bananas to supplement it. So, how much potassium is in a banana? Let’s take a closer look at it below.

Bananas contain about 330 mg of potassium per 100 grams of fruit.

Bananas have a fragrant smell, are sweet and smooth, and have high nutritional value. They are a fruit that is loved by people of all ages. Banana pulp, juice, flowers, leaves, roots and peel all have medicinal value.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bananas are sweet and cold in nature. Eating them raw can relieve thirst, moisten the lungs and intestines, promote blood circulation, replenish essence and marrow, and treat constipation, drunkenness, fever, heat boils and swelling. Eating them cooked (stewed with rock sugar) can cure coughs. For dry stools and bleeding hemorrhoids, eating 1 to 2 bananas on an empty stomach every morning is very effective.

Bananas contain 5-cyanotryptamine chemicals that can prevent gastric ulcers and relieve the irritation of gastric acid on gastric mucosa. They are an ideal therapeutic fruit for patients with stomach problems. Clinically, taking hormone drugs such as butazone often induces gastric ulcer bleeding. Eating bananas after taking the medicine can protect the gastric mucosa from ulcers.

Bananas are rich in potassium, which lowers blood pressure and protects the inner walls of arteries. People who eat bananas regularly have a 23.6% lower incidence of stroke than those who eat bananas occasionally. For hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and coronary heart disease, eating 3 to 5 bananas a day, or drinking banana tea (crush 50 grams of banana, add an equal amount of tea, and then add appropriate amount of sugar), 1 small cup each time, drink 3 times a day, which is helpful for treatment. Animal experiments also suggest that eating bananas can enhance the body's immunity and shrink tumors.

Bananas are rich in a substance that helps the human brain produce tryptamine, which can make people feel happy, relieve pain and depression, so they are also known as "happy food". For newlyweds, eating more bananas regularly can make their love life sweeter, more delicate, more emotional and more radiant.

Bananas also have magical skin care and beauty effects. When the climate is dry and cold, and the skin on your hands and feet is chapped, use a ripe banana, heat it by the fire, apply it to the affected area, and massage for a while. This can promote faster healing of the chapped skin. Banana peel contains banana peelin, which can treat skin pain and itching caused by fungal or bacterial infections. Regularly eating banana milk paste (6 bananas, 250 grams of fresh milk, 200 grams of oatmeal, 100 grams of raisins, cook in a pot over low heat, then add some honey to taste), 100 grams each morning and evening, has a good effect on moisturizing the skin and removing wrinkles.