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  • Bananas Might Just Be Your Gut’s Best Pal

    Bananas Might Just Be Your Gut’s Best Pal

    Are bananas good for your digestive system? Hell, yeah!

    However, before we delve deeper into how this sweet marvel works like magic for your digestive health, let’s just make a note of all the goodness it’s packed with.

    An ordinary banana fruit which is 100% carbide-free, for instance, like a Keventer banana, is rich in fibres and potassium. It is also totally fat-free, cholesterol-free, and sodium-free. A real banana will also have oodles of Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, and various antioxidants and phytonutrients. Now all of these play a vital part in supporting good digestive health. Read on, to know how.

    Improving digestion

    Let’s begin with a banana’s fibre content. Not only does a medium sized banana provide for 10% of an adult’s daily fibre need, but the fibre and the water in the fruit promote regularity and induce better digestive health. While high-fibre content can cause bloating, gas, or stomach cramps, not bananas. They, according to a study conducted in 2021, improve symptoms, instead. Bananas also contain the fibre, ‘pectin’, which plays an important role in how your body controls the rate of digestion of carbohydrates.

    Replenishing vital nutrients

    When you suffer from diarrhoea, you know how much water you lose. However, along with fluids you also lose vital electrolytes such as potassium. Now, bananas being rich in this nutrient, easily replenish the deficit.

    Probiotic power

    The probiotics in bananas are the same as the good bacteria found in your gut. The fruit also contains prebiotics and carbs that feed these good bacteria. These probiotics can ease irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), also aid in treating some gut infections, and lessen lactose intolerance.

    Maintaining a balance

    Bananas also contain a unique fructose-filled carb called Fructooligosaccharides (FOS). This is a nutrient that the body cannot completely digest, but which, upon reaching the lower intestine, helps in maintaining the balance of good bacteria.

    Vitamin support

    Finally, Vitamin B6, which contains Pyridoxine, helps your digestive system by processing the proteins you intake. By boosting protein metabolism, it also helps maintain the balance of amino acids in the body.

    Now that you know how amazing this fruit is when it comes to promoting good digestive health, rush to your nearest store to grab some 100% carbide-free Keventer bananas. Indulge in this sweet, nutritious treat to keep yourself and your gut, happy.

     

    Ref: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3552110/
    https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/271157#potassium
    https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/health-benefits-bananas
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/vitamin-b6

  • 5 Tips to Keep Bananas from Ripening Fast

    5 Tips to Keep Bananas from Ripening Fast

    Bananas are wholesome. Bananas are sweet. Bananas keep you full. Yeah! Yeah! We know all that. But yellow bananas are disgusting when they overripen and become black! Who on earth likes those mushy, gooey fruits anyway? Unless, of course, you love to bake and can turn overripened bananas into banana oatmeal cookies or banana breads, at your will. Not all of us are bakers in the making, are we?

    So how do we prevent our favourite banana fruit from ripening faster than we like and ensure they don’t find their way to the dustbin? We’ve got 5 awesome tips and tricks up our sleeve for you to keep bananas fresh for longer.

    – DO NOT keep your bananas with other fruits in a fruit bowl. Most fruits release ethylene as they ripen which causes bananas to ripen faster.

    – Keep the bananas in a cool place, away from direct sunlight. Heat acts as a catalyst, ripening these fruits faster. This doesn’t mean you keep them inside the fridge, because that will turn your beloved fruit, black.

    – DO NOT store bananas in a closed container or bag. Nope! NEVER do that! When you are not eating bananas, do not stuff them into a restricted space because their peels rub against each other and get bruised. The fruit ripens faster at these bruise points.

    – Banana stem releases ethylene gas, which, as you already know by now, makes the fruit ripen faster. Try wrapping the crown of the bananas with some plastic. You simply restrict the release of ethylene, saving your bananas from turning into a slithery pile of mush.

    – Always choose carbide-free bananas. Carbide-ripened bananas, apart from being inferior in taste, are overly soft. As a result, they have a much shorter shelf life than their naturally ripened counterparts.

    Follow these tips while you buy naturally ripened, 100% carbide-free bananas from Keventer. And don’t forget to look for an authenticity sticker when you shop for Keventer Bananas, so you know you’ve bought the real stuff. Enjoy a nutritiously sweet treat, every day!

  • What’s This Hype Around Carbide-Free Bananas?

    What’s This Hype Around Carbide-Free Bananas?

    Before we delve further into the discussion on why you should always choose to consume carbide-free bananas, let’s first understand what ‘carbide’ really is. Carbide is a binary compound of carbon which is the primary component of calcium carbide—a chemical often used to ripen fruits. This chemical is mixed with water to release a gas called, acetylene, which is similar to the natural hormone, ethylene, produced by fruits during their ripening phase. When the fruits are still raw, this acetylene gas is used by several farmers as a catalyst to ripen the fruits much faster, making them available even during their off-season.

    However, there is nothing to rejoice about your favourite fruit, ripened with chemicals, being made available to you across all seasons. It is important for you to know that the calcium carbide that ripened your fruit is also used to process metals and industrial chemicals which makes it extremely hazardous. The health complications this chemical can cause are appalling! Imagine having your favourite fruit and landing up with stomach pain, nausea and vomiting, allergies, skin issues, fatigue, or kidney trouble. Calcium carbide is also known to be a harmful carcinogen and the more you stay away from it, the better!

    So, when you choose to add fruits to your daily diet in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle, make sure they are not carbide ripened. And the best way of doing it, is to look for actual proof. For instance, when you go shopping for Keventer bananas, you can simply look for the quality-check sticker which guarantees that these bananas are carbide-free.

    Besides being free of chemicals, carbide-free Keventer bananas retain their original nutritional quality. Their rich vitamin, mineral, potassium, and antioxidants content stays uncompromised. They also taste better than artificially ripened bananas since their natural ripening process allows them to develop a full profile of flavour.

    Do have a Keventer banana daily to enjoy its wholesome goodness. When it comes to quality, rest assured that we’ve got you covered!