Find out just how good Australian bananas are for you and your family.

Bananas are well recognised as being very nutritious, containing substantial potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosporus and iron. They are also high in Vitamins A and C as well as thiamine, riboflavin and niacin.

Bananas Aren't Fattening

Bananas contain less than 1% fat and at 364 kilojoules per 100grams, a medium sized banana contains the same kilojoule content  as an average grapefruit.

Bananas are also rich in fibre which helps the body absorb water, hastening digestion. Food high in fibre also makes you feel "full" which helps resist the desire for snacks.

Minerals	mgs/ 100gms	Minerals	mgs/ 100gms	Vitamins	mgs/ 100gms
Sodium	4.0	Iron	0.6	Vit A (Intl Units)	160-450
Potassium	378.0	Phosphorous	28.0	Thiamine (B1)	0.04-0.1
Calcium	8.0	Chlorine	12.0	Riboflavin (B2)	0.04-0.1
Magnesium	31.0	Iodine	125.0	Niacin	0.6-0.7
Manganese	0.6	Sulphur	0.003	Ascorbic Acid	6-10
Copper	0.2

 

Brain Food

When you really need your concentration at home, school or work, or when you need to be physically active, bananas are the perfect food.

Whenever we run, jump, play or think, trillions of nerves carry messages all over the body on tiny currents of electricity. If you could place a voltmeter inside a nerve you would register a negative potential of 70 millivolts. The "battery" that powers all this electrical activity is largely dependant on potassium.

So whether it's school, work or the big game, a couple of bananas will give you the potassium you need to give your best performance.

In fact children in some tribes in Africa eat virtually nothing else but bananas up until the age of 8 or 10.

In third world economies, bananas are the fourth staple crop behind rice, wheat and maize. More than 70 million people in Africa rely on bananas as a staple crop.