Eat green bananas?
You have an appetite for delicious yellow bananas, but only have green ones in stock. Either let it ripen for a few more days or decide to eat a green banana. But how tolerable are the unripe fruits?
Bananas - healthy and tasty
Bananas are very healthy fruits that fill you up well, contain valuable vitamins, minerals and fiber and also contain the "good mood hormone" serotonin.
- They are ideal as a snack, serve as a light food for gastrointestinal complaints and, when ripe, act as an alkaline food against over-acidification.
- Green, unripe bananas often end up on the market, so you have to let them ripen at home before you can eat them.
Can you eat this green fruit unripe?
You can dessert- respectively. Fruit bananas, as the fruits are also called, eat green, but they mainly contain starch, which is first converted into sugar during the ripening process. Therefore, the consumption of the green fruit is more a question of taste and tolerance. In contrast, an unripe plantain must first be heated and must not be consumed raw.
- The color of the peel provides information about the state of ripeness and sugar content of the banana. The more yellow the skin, the more mature it is fruit.
- In a fully ripe banana, the starch has been completely broken down into sugar - the black dots on the peel indicate an overripe state. A ripe fruit tastes deliciously sweet and exudes the typical aroma of the fruit.
- If, on the other hand, you eat an unripe banana, you will feel a slightly furry feeling on the tongue and also miss its sweetness. In addition, the fruit is difficult to peel.
- Eating green bananas does not harm your health right away. But you can get bulging pain and / or gas from it, which are due to the high starch content.
In many cases, the taste of bananas depends not only on the variety but also on the degree of ripeness ...
If possible, only eat yellow fruits, as these are ripe and digestible and the starch has already been converted into sugar.
