Banana poisoning! Does it exist??

tmi!

annodomini The small intestine cannot digest the starch in unripe bananas. That's the reason that eating them tends to cause flatulence.

I had to dial 999 for an ambulance last week and Hub was taken to hospital. It seems he wasn't eating his daily banana. He'd been put on medication that lowered his potassium levels and on the prescription was written "eat a banana a day". He didn't as he thought it was them that were giving him constipation. His potassium level dropped dangerously and he collapsed, all for the want of a banana. They've now stopped that prescription and he's on a potassium supplement + banana.
It's the simple things in life that mean so much.

I doubt that they become more fattening, but the starch in the less ripe banana converts to sugar as it ripens. It still keeps the same calorific value.

As a child of nine, I had my first banana for years at the end of the war. I promptly came out in a rash and couldn't go to school. Very uncomfortable. Never had that reaction again.

I have heard that as bananas become over ripe, they do become fattening.

If banana poisoning was a possibility i should be dead :-))
one banana one crusty cob to be eaten between the hour of 12-30 and 1-30 nearly every day for goodness how long ( god i'm so boring )

I'm still smiling days later at Granny23's liking for a firm one. I'm tempted to reply "That's fine. But how do you like your bananas?" But that would be vulgar wouldn't it. Though after that horrible page of turd cakes, nothing much seems vulgar!

re Dried Bananas, yes it is those hard, brittle flakes I can't stand, they taste sweetened too or maybe it's the concentration of the natural sugars that makes them seem that way.

The slightly softer, slightly chewy whole dried bananas though are, I agree, delicious. I think I used to buy them from Traidcraft by post. Does anyone know a shop that stocks them?

My DD once had a boyfriend who was frightened of bananas. He couldn't touch them and ducked out of the way if they were passed in front of him. He was a strapping lad. It was most peculiar.

My DGS is frightened of milk. All dairy products in fact. Except ice cream which he eats in vast quantities. And he will make an exception for cream in banoffee pie.

anno The turd cakes were not as bad as that. Rather like chocolate Krispy cakes but with chunks of peanut instead of Rice Krispies.

Apparently the family of the person who sent in the recipe had named them.

I thought they were rather good, but the I like chunky peanut butter.

Still looking for the recipe. I think I have lost it, will have a Google.

Penny sue. Sounds like me and eggs!

Elegran, I found this on the net and if it doesn't put anyone off, nothing will...

www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/40-turd-cakes

Elegran

Oldgreymare YUK !!

Bags - all I got from the Doctor at the time (over 30 years ago) was "well do not eat bananas!

Wholemeal bread, peanut butter, and a smear of honey.

I used to have a recipe for "turd cakes" - mostly crunchy peanut butter, cocoa and syrup. If I can find it I will post it - but it came from the net so you could find it by Googling. Looked revolting but was very good.

pennysue, that's scary! Has the culprit chemical that you react so badly to been isolated?

Pennysue me too altho' my reaction is not so extreme and just involves a sprint to the loo ( apologies to GNs of a sensitive nature).

DH was a little boy during the war when there was hardly any imported fruit, and when the local shop had finally had some bananas delivered DH was given one by the shopkeeper who told him, "You can only have one, because if you have any more, you'll die!" It stopped him carping on about having more of them. Now and again he enjoys a firm one, though ! Personally, I prefer mine spotty !

Banana poisoning - not sure, but they a seem to not like me!

Loved banana as a kid (specially bananas and custard) when suddenly in my late 20's had an extreme reaction, thought I was going to die. Could not breath, doubled up in pain.

Thought it was a one off and after a few months tried again. The reaction was even worse.

Subsequently found that even if I removed banana from a dish (trifle or the like) still had a bad reaction so have had to stay clear. Have not tried for about 34 years and am still to scared.

I quite like dried bananas. First came across them as a kid because my gran lived next door to a Jamaican who, during WW2 when it was impossible to get fresh bananas in the UK, had dried ones delivered from her rellies in Jamaica. Not dried banana flakes, which I'm not fond of, but whole dried bananas. But, yes, I'd just eat them as is, not with milk poured over them.

anno, that combination of wholemeal bread and mashed banana is even better with peanut butter between the bread and the banana. Butter too. No, I don't care about the fat content. Food fat is food in my book.

Dried bananas = work of the devil. Horrible! imho.

They will put dried bananas into Fruit and Fibre. They are OK dry, but once you put on milk or fruit juice they go all slimy. Yeugh.

Yes! I can't stand being in the same room as someone who is eating a banana. Can't even eat them disguised in a cake and slipping sliced bananas into a trifle.... YUK

annodomini, sensuous and virtuous, a rare combination!

There's something sensual about munching into mashed banana on good wholemeal bread.