The humble banana

gbs
gbs Posts: 450
edited February 2011 in The bottom bracket
What is it worth in terms of kcals?

Approximate answers please on one side of a sheet of paper.
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  • Karl2010
    Karl2010 Posts: 511
    I heard it was worth about 100kcal.
  • Pep
    Pep Posts: 501
    Bananas are great.

    Cheap. Healthy. Carbs and proteins and fibre at once. Good taste. Can buy anywhere. Always got some at home. Can't beat it really.
  • Finbar Saunders
    Finbar Saunders Posts: 299
    Everything you could ever want to know about the nutritional value of the banana. Use the drop down box to select the size of your banana - Fnarr Fnarr!

    http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fru ... ces/1846/2
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  • mattshrops
    mattshrops Posts: 1,134
    Finbar Saunders wrote:
    Everything you could ever want to know about the nutritional value of the banana. Use the drop down box to select the size of your banana - Fnarr Fnarr!

    http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fru ... ces/1846/2

    good site- thanks for that :)
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  • gbs
    gbs Posts: 450
    Thanks Finbar. So 2 medium bananas = 17% of 2000kcals = approx 1.5 mule bar. Excellent result!
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  • Le Commentateur
    Le Commentateur Posts: 4,099
    The bananas we buy in the shops are the, er, "Cavendish" variety, which makes up the majority of the world's agricultural crop. However 20 years ago a virus emerged that has decimated banana production in Asia and looks set to spread round the world eventually – some say in 20 years.
    Tropical Race Four appeared in Taiwan in the late eighties, and destroyed roughly seventy per cent of the island’s Cavendish plantations. In Indonesia, more than twelve thousand acres of export bananas were abandoned; in Malaysia, a local newspaper branded the disease “the H.I.V. of banana plantations.” When the fungus reached China and the Philippines, the effect was equally ruinous. Australia was next.

    There are other varieties, but they taste different, or are smaller or just don't look as appealing as the bananas we currently consume.
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  • Finbar Saunders
    Finbar Saunders Posts: 299
    Le Commentateur wrote:

    There are other varieties, but they taste different, or are smaller or just don't look as appealing as the bananas we currently consume.

    Bananas have been inbred for so many years to give the characteristics that consumers require, which is why the virus is so devastating. I grew up in the Caribbean on an island that relies heavily on the banana industry. Locally, you can find a number of varieties, but farmers are only able to sell Cavendish that meet certain criteria.

    Just had a thought.....could that sprinter bloke be a descendant of the mighty banana?
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  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    Finbar Saunders wrote:
    Just had a thought.....could that sprinter bloke be a descendant of the mighty banana?

    Does he live at 29 Acacia Road?
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  • Finbar Saunders
    Finbar Saunders Posts: 299
    DesWeller wrote:
    Finbar Saunders wrote:
    Just had a thought.....could that sprinter bloke be a descendant of the mighty banana?

    Does he live at 29 Acacia Road?

    No, but sometimes he acts like he lives in Nuttytown.
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  • Homer J
    Homer J Posts: 920
    DesWeller wrote:
    Finbar Saunders wrote:
    Just had a thought.....could that sprinter bloke be a descendant of the mighty banana?

    Does he live at 29 Acacia Road?

    And go by the name Eric?
  • DIESELDOG
    DIESELDOG Posts: 2,087
    Pep wrote:
    Bananas are great.

    Cheap. Healthy. Carbs and proteins and fibre at once. Good taste. Can buy anywhere. Always got some at home. Can't beat it really.

    Meh, it's fruit, far too healthy...

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  • nevman
    nevman Posts: 1,611
    Le Commentateur wrote:
    The bananas we buy in the shops are the, er, "Cavendish" variety,

    Imagine being famous enough to be named after a banana-very appealing.(tee hee)
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  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    "The bananas we buy in the shops are the, er, "Cavendish" variety, which makes up the majority of the world's agricultural crop. However 20 years ago a virus emerged that has decimated banana production in Asia and looks set to spread round the world eventually – some say in 20 years. "

    As a plant pathologist and Wikipedia user I'm compelled to pull you up on one slight inaccuracy; it's not a virus but a fungus (Verticillium)
    It causes Panama disease, a type of vascular wilt, which wiped out the variety Gros Michel in the 50's leading to the adoption of the varietyCavendish.

    TR4 which emerged in 1993 is a much more pathogenic strain of the fungus, and Cavedish is proving susceptible to it. The variety has disappeared from some south east Asian countries, and it's anly a matter of time before it arrives in the Americas.

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