Mmm… bananas! We love bananas. Do you?
More than 100 billion bananas are eaten every year in the world, which makes them the fourth largest agricultural product. That’s a lot of bananas! If you like bananas, we’re guessing you eat them pretty often. They’re a great RV food—they’re easy to store and they last a long time. And hey, if they “go bad” you just get to make banana bread. That’s a great trade-off!
So tell us: How often do you eat a banana? Every day? Occasionally? Hardly ever? Or do you hate bananas so much that you’d never, ever eat one?
After you vote, please leave a comment and tell us your favorite way to eat a banana. Ever tried putting a banana in your s’more? Try it, and thank us later.
Oh, and before you go, check out our Editor, Emily Woodbury’s, favorite banana bread recipe. She swears this recipe is the best (it is!).
Had a fresh Georgia Peach today.
Very close to having fresh, hand-picked small peaches from our backyard tree. It is really loaded.
I like them, but they don’t like me – they give me headaches.
We normally have a few in the fridge. Put them on cereal or mash them and use them in the pancake batter. Once in a while for a quick snack. Better than high calorie junk food.
Hmmm. Interesting. I personally make the best pancakes in the world, but maybe I need to try the banana thing.
they’re great in pancakes and also can be used as an egg replacer-2/3 large or 2 tiny
I eat a whole banana daily. With the rest of my diet pretty much garbage, I figure that by starting with a banana, I at least have done something good for my body, such as it is.
If we have bananas in the house, I will eat one with breakfast, sometimes cut up on my cereal, sometimes on a waffle along with some peanut butter (Elvis Style), and sometimes during the day as a snack.
I like to put a dollop of natural peanut butter on mine. YUM! My wife likes cinnamon on hers.
I like them cut into slices on ice cream – I eat the ice cream to increase cholesterol and the banana to reinforce my heart!!! HA!
I don’t have a long tail so I don’t eat bananas.
I read recently that bananas are WalMart’s biggest seller.
Must be very fresh. Once soft, they’re not edible.
Moi aussi. I don’t even like a preponderance of brown spots
Thank you, RV Travel! 🙂 Until DW altered my breakfast, it usually was original Cheerios and banana slices with milk. Unfortunately the caloric total was deemed excessive four years ago and I have had few since then. 🙁 Thanks again, have a great day, safe travels, and safe stays! 🙂
I’m eating one right now, in fact, on my bowl of Fiber One, along with blueberries and blackberries (from my yard). Yum! I’ve noticed that a banana a day keeps me from getting leg cramps. 😀 –Diane at RVtravel.com
They are an excellent source of potassium which is good for the heart. The problem is finding green ones to last more than a day or two. My wife has one a day and her Dr. said that was great for her lungs as well. Living in a rural area makes it difficult to keep a supply on hand. You mentioned leg cramps – I have restless feet, usually around midnite or so – I wonder if they would help with that? Hmmm….
Hi, D and J. I used to take potassium supplements every day until I read on the bottle that it only supplies about 2% of the RDA.(!) So, I eat a banana every day, which supplies more, and try to get the rest in the other food I eat. But buying potassium supplements for just 2% a day wasn’t worth the money. I like bananas when they’re not quite ripe, so I buy just 5 or 6 at a time on the slightly greenish side (I live close to a store), then store in the fridge. If one or two get too ripe, oh, well. I’ll just have to bake cookies or something.🫢 But years ago I did notice the difference it made by eating a banana every day and no more leg cramps. Your “restless feet” sounds to me more like heading for a midnight snack? Yep, a banana would probably help with that.😉 Take care. I’m thinking of you two (a lot).🤗 –Diane
Best banana I ever had was in Thailand, right off the the tree. Tree ripened is the ultimate!
I love bananas and have often wondered if they were even better straight off a tree.
I have them in my vegan smoothie bowls along with blueberries, strawberries, achi. And coconut
I eat a banana when my wife tells me to.
I am super picky about the age of the banana. It must be a bit green at the stem & zero brown spots or I won’t eat it. Seriously, I waste a lot of $ when I buy a bunch with no plan to make banana bread.
I eat about 4+ bananas a day, the sweet ones with the spots, not the green ones that are hard to digest, yum! Sure has helped to get rid of the brain fog.
I love fruit so I pretty much eat fruit all day long now.
Never – I don’t like the texture.
I have bananas three or four nights each week. I have one at bedtime and share it (thin slices) with our four dogs.I can call out, for example, “Rocky Dog, I have a banana” and he will run around the foot of our bed and beg for a bite. (I’ve searched and, in small amounts, bananas aren’t harmful to your dogs.)
Useful in the BRATT diet for nausea or diarrhea-Bananas, white rice, applesauce, tea and toast. Best banana muffin mix to me is the Chiquita Banana Bread mix, usually found (in Publix anyway) right in the produce section next to the banana display. I try to keep consumption down as I’m chronically constipated. My RL never had a thing to do with potassium-my doctore had to put me on 0.5 mg ropinorole. Also halted the bruxism.
BTW you should rinse bananas off when you bring them into the house as commercial growers use a boatload of pesticides and fungicides on them