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That's pretty neat. The Resistant Starch 2 (RS2) in green bananas has served as my bowel-regulating medicine for decades now. TFA makes me wonder if rice prep
by pengaru 4y ago
That's pretty neat.
The Resistant Starch 2 (RS2) in green bananas has served as my bowel-regulating medicine for decades now. TFA makes me wonder if rice prepared this way could have a similar effect. It's a nuisance to keep green bananas onhand for breakfast daily, and once they turn yellow the RS2 has become sugar and the medicinal value is gone. Rice however...
- justinator 4y agoHa, interesting: green bananas, the first prebiotic.
- antonvs 4y agoPlus rice pudding can make a great breakfast.
- ianai 4y agoHow do you make that work? Practically.
- pengaru 4y agoFortunately it's not unusual for the grocery stores around me (CA) to put out bananas so green it requires a knife to peel them. Those last about a week before turning too yellow just hanging from a hook in the kitchen. When I visited family in IL last summer it proved quite difficult and I was often visiting multiple stores on shopping trips just to find bananas remotely green. My quality of life jumps off a cliff every time I visit, this is part of why. The produce availability sucks there in general compared to CA.
- ianai 4y agoHow much do you need to eat and when? Do you eat the peal? You can get green banana powder, but it was so incredibly bitter the last time I tried that I never went back.
- pengaru 4y agoNever eaten a peel before... I just eat one in the morning. Never tried the flour, just know of its availability. If I eat more than one in a day that's green it's so effective I'll end up constipated for a couple days. Never experimented with eating less than one, fortunately one seems to be the perfect unit of consumption for me, YMMV. Are you using green bananas in a similar fashion?
- ianai 4y agoMy gotos are cherries (frozen) and spinach, but am curious to add something else. This helps. Thank you!
- ars 4y agoHow do you manage that? I get a massive of stomach ache if I eat a green banana. I need my bananas to be completely free of green not even a tiny hint of green on the tip.
- pengaru 4y agoWow, that's wild. I can't imagine a green banana causing anything remotely resembling discomfort. If I'm particularly sick with the runs, the first thing I look for is a banana so green peeling requires a knife and tastes like eating chalk. It fixes me right up within the hour, and I've never had negative effects. But on the day to day it's not so green, just green enough to not be sweet. BTW this isn't some trail I'm blazing here. Green bananas are well known as a dietary source of RS2, there's even green banana flour sold for its RS2 content. I first discovered use of green bananas for GI maladies when seeking out more natural alternatives to medicines like Immodium AD. They're included in myriad lists of natural remedies... I've found just starting every day with one that's at least slightly green preemptively nips any potential GI problem in the bud, enabling me to then eat basically anything fearlessly for the next ~30hrs.