Can one OD by eating more than 6 bananas? No, just have 7,5 instead….

The origins of the banana are convoluted and complex.

Whilst there is archaeological evidence of banana cultivation in New Guinea dating as far back as 8000 BC, other banana domestication projects have been found in Southeast Asia in the jungles of Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Generally, it is agreed that bananas originated in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific around 8000 to 5000 BC.

The name banana originates from the Arabic word ‘banan’ which, rather logically, means finger.

Its scientific name is musa sapientum, and means “fruit of the wise men”.

Early written references to the banana were discovered in Sanskrit dating back to the year 500 BC.

This can be seen as the year bananas first appeared in the history books!

Did you know…

Bananas are believed to have been the world’s first cultivated fruit.

Bananas are naturally slightly radioactive (thanks to their potassium content)—but the level of radiation is not high enough to cause harm

You can use the inside of a banana peel to clean and polish leather shoes.

Thanks to its oil, rubbing the inside of a banana peel on a mosquito bite (or other bug bite) will help keep it from itching and getting inflamed.

If you rub the inside of a banana peel on a scrape or burn, it will help the pain go away, keep the swelling down, and keep the wound from getting infected.

Some cultures (most notably Japan) use the fibre in the banana plant to make fabric and sometimes even paper.

The belief that eating more than 6 bananas a day can kill you is actually a myth. In reality, it would be impossible to overdose on bananas.

You would probably need around 400 bananas a day to build up the kind of potassium levels that would stop your heart beating.

A healthy person can consume at least 7.5 bananas before reaching the recommended daily intake of potassium.

A man in India once ate 81 bananas in a half hour.Can you eat more than 6 bananas in one sitting?

The phrase ‘going bananas’ was first recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary and is linked to the fruit’s comic connection with monkeys

The fastest marathon ever run by a competitor dressed as a fruit was 2 hours, 58 minutes, and 20 seconds recorded at the Barcelona Marathon on March 6, 2011. The runner was Patrick Wightman from the United Kingdom, who dressed as a banana.

More songs have been written about bananas than about any other fruit.

Here are one to make your day a little bit…mmm, shall we say banana-delicious

So go forth and use the banana peel for just about anything. Just make sure you don’t slip on it.

Source: Makefruitfare.com