Does eating bananas on an empty stomach really have any effect on the body?

Is it good to eat bananas on an empty stomach? Many netizens believe that bananas should not be eaten on an empty stomach. There are various reasons. Excessive magnesium intake affects the heart, easily leads to insufficient gastric acid secretion, and causes gastrointestinal dysfunction. So can bananas be eaten on an empty stomach? What are the effects of eating bananas on an empty stomach? Will eating bananas on an empty stomach lead to excessive magnesium intake and affect the heart?

Bananas are rich in magnesium, but can eating bananas on an empty stomach really cause the magnesium content in the blood to suddenly increase and affect the heart? The magnesium in food is mainly absorbed in the intestines, and the absorption rate is generally around 30%. Every 100 grams of bananas contains about 43 mg of magnesium. If we calculate that a banana is 100 grams, then the magnesium intake is about 12.9 mg.

According to the Chinese Dietary Reference Intake of Nutrients, the suitable magnesium intake for adults is about 350 mg, and the maximum tolerable intake is about 700 mg. This is enough to prove that eating bananas on an empty stomach will not cause excessive magnesium intake and affect the heart. Unless you eat more than 55 bananas in one go, it is unlikely that eating bananas on an empty stomach will lead to an excess of magnesium.

In our daily food, green leafy vegetables actually have the highest magnesium content, including whole grains, nuts, etc., which also exceed bananas. But have you ever heard of excessive magnesium affecting the heart due to eating vegetables on an empty stomach? So, it is not true that eating bananas will lead to excessive magnesium content and affect heart health.

Will eating bananas on an empty stomach have some effect on gastric acid secretion?

Some people believe that eating bananas on an empty stomach will greatly reduce the secretion of gastric acid, but this statement is also wrong. The human stomach will continuously secrete gastric acid, and its basic excretion rate is about 10% of the maximum excretion rate. In addition, due to the day and night changes, it reaches its peak a few hours after falling asleep and is lowest when waking up in the early morning. If you do not eat, your gastric acid secretion will be greatly reduced. After food enters the stomach, it stimulates the secretion of gastric acid, which then increases the activity of pepsin, thereby helping digestion.

Some people will experience acid reflux and vomiting after eating bananas on an empty stomach. This is because bananas contain carbohydrates. Under normal circumstances, carbohydrates do not have a significant effect on gastric acid secretion, but monosaccharides and disaccharides will particularly stimulate the secretion of gastric acid. It happens that most of the carbohydrates in fruits exist in the form of monosaccharides and disaccharides. Therefore, eating bananas on an empty stomach will cause more gastric acid secretion. For example, patients with gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers will have the adverse reaction of acid reflux.

People who already have excessive stomach acid may also experience discomfort. However, except for people who have the above symptoms, other normal and healthy people will not experience any other discomfort when eating bananas on an empty stomach except for quickly feeling full.

Can eating bananas on an empty stomach replenish energy during exercise?

In sports competitions that require rapid physical exertion, such as marathons, you will find that the athletes will eat one or two bananas during the half-time break. This is because a large amount of energy is consumed during exercise, and excessive sweating during exercise will cause a large loss of potassium and sodium in the body.

We all know that bananas are high-potassium foods, which can replenish potassium in a timely manner, strengthen muscle strength, and enable athletes to continue to maintain exercise. Bananas are also a high-energy food. They contain monosaccharides and disaccharides that can be quickly metabolized to produce a large amount of energy, which can support athletes to have enough energy to continue exercising. Therefore, athletes can replenish energy to their bodies in time by eating bananas on an empty stomach during exercise.

After reading the above introduction, do you now know the effects of eating bananas on an empty stomach on our body?

Relevant research has shown that as global temperatures continue to rise, bananas may become the staple food of humans in the future. We don’t know whether this conclusion is true or not yet. But as bananas are food that grows from trees, there is definitely no problem in eating them on an empty stomach. Remember to chew slowly when eating. There will be no physiological reaction if you eat two or three bananas. But if you have underlying diseases and feel that your condition does not allow you to eat bananas on an empty stomach, then don't eat them!

In fact, eating bananas on an empty stomach is not that scary. There is no need to be so particular about it. Whether to eat it or not depends on your own physical condition.