Nutritious eating goes bananas

Aren't you bored from your daily routine breakfast? Let's try something different. Bananas are an awesome snack anytime, you can eat them for breakfast with your cereal or use them in fruit salads, and freeze them for use in smoothies, and they taste delicious!

Nutritious value:

Bananas are high in B vitamins and will help with the symptoms of PMS (Premenstrual Syndrome). Women suffering from morning sickness will also find that snacking on bananas will keep the stomach from getting too empty and keep the blood sugar from falling to the point of nausea. Bananas are high in iron and therefore are beneficial to people with low hemoglobin. Research has shown that the potassium in bananas can help in learning and brain stressing projects by making one more alert. It is claimed that bananas have beneficial effect in the treatment of intestinal disorders, including diarrhea.

One medium-sized banana contains about 1 gram of protein, 27 grams of carbohydrates (including 14 grams of sugar and 3 grams of fiber), 15 percent of the recommended daily allowance of vitamin C, 20 percent of the RDA for vitamin B6, and 20 percent of the RDA for potassium. Bananas are not expensive and they naturally support a healthy blood sugar level. You will especially love eating them alongside a handful of raw nuts like almonds, pecans, or walnuts.

How to make your children happy:

Sometime kids don't want to have banana so you can choose a cool alternative of Ice Cream.

Put a heap of frozen bananas in your blender and add some white grape/peach juice in moderate amounts as you blend. Keep it up until the consistency is equivalent to ice cream. If you just have to have that "cream" in your ice cream, add a little half and half as you blend. But try it first without the cream. You kids will be pleasantly surprised.

How to store:

If you have a bunch of bananas that just did not get eaten before going too ripe, peel them and put them in a Ziploc freezer bag. They will keep for up to a year in there and will be always available to you for smoothies and/or banana bread.

How to select:

Select firm bananas, avoid any with large bruises or dents and reject those with any opening in the skin. There is no quality or flavor difference between big bananas and little ones choose the size you like but for their size, choose plumper rather than skinnier bananas; they will ripen better.

Best use:

Banana can be also used as a drink. Banana smoothie is one of nature's perfect drinks that can be a delicious and healthy breakfast, or snack for any time of the day.

You can prepare basic banana smoothie in just minutes and it also can be adapted to suit your child's taste.

Here is one example-

1 ripe banana

Small natural yoghurt

Honey (optional)

Crushed ice (optional)

Put all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth.

For variety, try adding other fruits such as strawberries or blueberries. Adding milk to a banana smoothie will result in a nice milkshake that your kids will appreciate most. It is full of vitamins and packed with energy, banana smoothies are good source of fiber which is vastly important in maintaining healthy digestion.

So the next time you pack your child's lunch box for school, go ahead and give your kids the great taste they crave and the nutrition they deserve. After all, there's no need to choose between the two. Happy eating!

(Sources: fruitsmoothierecipes.me.uk,naturalnews.com)