Fun Facts about Bananas
Bananas are certainly a delicious fruit that is very good for you to eat. Bananas provide plenty of Vitamin C, Iron, Vitamin A, Calcium and dietary fiber to maintain a body’s healthy immune system. It is also very low in saturated fat and will give you the tough to get Vitamin B6. Here are a few fun facts about bananas that you might not have heard or read before.
Since bananas have such a high content of potassium, they are also naturally radioactive. This potassium-40 element is also classified as a radioactive isotope. But don’t worry, the potassium radioactive isotope is actually good for you and not harmful.
The top three consumed agricultural products in the world are wheat, rice and corn. I’ll bet you can’t guess what number 4 is. That’s right! There are over one-hundred billion bananas consumed each and every year around the world. That’s a lot of bananas to eat!
Bananas are America’s number one fruit. They consume more bananas than any other fruit out there, even apples and oranges put together! The average Joe in the USA consumes over 26 pounds of bananas annually! But there is one country that eats WAY more bananas than an average American, the people of Uganda consume more than 500 pounds of bananas per year. And yes that is just one Ugandan consuming that much!
These are just a few fun facts about the healthy berry that is a banana. That’s right, the banana is actually considered a berry that grows from an above the ground root structure of a plant and not a tree. Remember these fun facts the next time you dig into a delicious banana.