Super Food Of The Week

The banana with it's lovely yellow outer casing has lots of inner secrets lets have a look at them:

Bananas are a great way to boost your health as well as helping with weight loss with a low glycemic rating of 30 that's great news if your concerned with blood sugar issues. That is the unripened value just quoted.

Main health benefit's of the banana are.

• Low in calories 86 or thereabouts per banana which is good from a weight-loss perspective
• Good source of potassium which is known for helping lower blood pressure
• Can help with digestion so if you have diarrhoea or any other digestion problems eat plenty of banana's
  
• low in sodium and fat
  
• 2 grams of fibre per banana
• Great for people who have ulcers banana's have antacid properties
• May prevent the onset of kidney problems such as kidney cancer, studies have shown which involved women that those who ate banana's four to six time's a week halved there chances of getting kidney cancer to those who didn't.

Here a few banana ideas for you.

Why not freeze a banana great for summer do this with the skin on, have a sliced banana with your cereal to supplement it.

Have a banana sandwich with some wholemeal bread tastes great.