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If your favorite fruit is a banana, you are not the only one.Bananas are the most consumed fruits in AmericaAccording to statista - a staple of 59% of the diets of respondents to the survey. It's not a surprise why, really. This tropical fruit offers a myriad ofHealth benefits This varies from the promotion of muscle recovery, supporting the health of incidents and their body with tons of natural energy.

With all the good of this popular food, it is difficult to understand that there may be bad difficulties. But as is the case with any food, how much you eat and how you prepare can do or break your health. That's why dietitians warn thatThe worst way possible to prepare bananas is to cook for banana bread. (In touch:A major side effect to eat bananas every day, say experts.)

"During the quarantine, the banana bread has become quite popular. Delicious, sweet, comforting and healthy?Adding fresh fruits to a recipe is greatBut when combined flour, sugar, butter and eggs, that healthy banana bread certainly does not imply unhealthy ingredients. And at the end of the day, it's finally a cake, "saysAmy Shapiro, MS, RD, CDN, founder and director ofREAL NUTRITION NYCand a member of ourMedical Review Commission.

It's not just the average banana bread recipe that Shapiro allows you to jump, it's also "good health".

"Even the" banana bread "healthy" with almond flour, coconut oil and coconut sugar always adds and is not as good for you to just eat the Banana ", adds Shapiro.

Let's put it into perspective, let's go?

If you look at the first result when looking for "banana bread recipe", it calls 1 cup of sugar or 200 grams of sweet stuff. Add to the recipe required3 bananas too ripeAnd you have up to 250 grams of blood sugar. (By the way, too ripe bananas have more sugar than your standard mature banana. This is because the complex starches of the chain longer and complex bananas are converted into simple sugars over time, hence recipes Call for excessive bananas - for this extra sweetness.)

If you are generous and you say that you can get 12 slices by bread,You look at 21 grams of sugar per serving of banana bread. For the context, it is the equivalent of7 Oneo Cookie Thins!

We are not here to be Debbie Downers, though. You do not need to remove the banana bread from the menu - do not think about this as if you eat a portion of fruit promoting health.

"That does not mean that you should not eat [banana bread] like treatments, but count it like a treat, not food to health," says Shaproo. For more reasons why you should make sure you eat your fruit as bread, checkWhat happens to your body when you eat fruits.

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