Test Your Banana Smarts
Sources Reviewed by Christine Mikstas, LD, RD on October 18, 2019 Medically Reviewed on October 18, 2019
Reviewed by Christine
Mikstas, LD, RD on
October 18, 2019
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SOURCES:
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: “What Is Potassium?”
Agroforestry Net: “Musa species (banana and plantain).”
American Statistical Association: “Do bananas speed fruit ripening?”
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations: “Description of the banana plant.”
Food and Nutrition: “The difference between bananas and plantains.”
Glasgow Experimental Particle Physics Laboratory: “Banana Equivalent Dose.”
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture: “Starch and sugar transformation during the ripening of plantains and bananas.”
ProMusa: “Pseudostem.”
Produce for Better Health Foundation: “Plantain: Nutrition, Selection, Storage.”
Queen Mary University of London: “Radioactive Bananas.”
FDA: “Nutrition Information on Raw Fruits for Restaurants & Retail Establishments.”
UCSB Science Line: “What causes banana peels to turn brown?”
University of California at San Francisco: “Sugar Science: Frequently Asked Questions.”
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