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Bananas When You’re On the Run

Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Danielle McGaw in Healthy Eating

When you are leaving the house on the run you often skip breakfast because you don’ t have time to sit down and eat but if you have bananas in the house you could be doing yourself a big favor by grabbing one before you dash out the door. Bananas have loads of food value and because they are high in healthy carbs they will give you the energy that you need to keep you going until you can sit down for a real mean.

Most people have heard that bananas are high in potassium and that is a good thing. But did you know that bananas are high in a variety of other essential vitamins as well? You can get 15% of your daily Vitamin C from a banana and 5% of your daily riboflavin. But the biggest benefit is that you can get 28% of your daily Vitamin B6. Vitamin B6 is not one of the vitamins that you hear a lot about but it has many benefits like helping improve attention spans, minimizing the risk of Parkinson’s disease in smokers, and minimizing hyperactivity and aggressiveness in children.

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