5 You’ll increase your energy level.
Talk about the perfect way to jumpstart your day—and especially great as a pre-workout or post-workout snack. Eating a banana each day will not only keep you from feeling fatigued throughout the day, but will also improve your athletic performance. A PLOS One 2012 study found a direct correlation between eating a banana and increased energy levels in male athletes competing in long-distance cycling races, so keeping a banana in your bag could be the perfect snack to give you the boost you need.
6. You can enhance your memory.
Bet you never realized that eating a banana could enhance your memory. Well, according to the BCC, it can. It’s the richness in B vitamins that give bananas the power to support memory function as well as protect the brain. Studies have found that students who eat bananas perform better on exams as well as learn more efficiently. Time to pick up some bananas.
7. You can improve your skin.
We’re constantly looking for new ways to improve our skin health, and apparently, it could start and end with bananas. The vitamins and minerals in bananas, particularly the manganese, work to boost collagen levels and thus repair your skin. Everything from acne to wrinkles to dry skin can start to clear as soon as you finish your banana. It’s that easy.
Discussion about this post