Ten fantastic facts about bananas

Ten fantastic facts about bananas

• Run out of shoe polish? Rub the inside of a banana peel on your leather shoes or handbags for a sparkling shine!
  
  
• Trying to stop smoking? Due their high levels of potassium, magnesium and B-vitamins bananas can help speed-up recovery from the effects of nicotine withdrawal
  
  
• Bananas can help to overcome depression and seasonal affective disorder (SAD), due to their high levels of tryptophan, which your body turns into serotonin; the happy-mood brain neurotransmitter

• Warts can be removed by taping the inside of a piece of banana peel against the wart overnight
  
  
• If you rub some banana on an insect bite it will relieve any itching and irritation
  
  
• Bananas are great for relieving symptoms of morning sickness, including nausea and heartburn, so if you’re pregnant - keep one by your bed to eat as soon as you wake up!
  
  
• Eating a banana on a hot day will cool down your body temperature
  
  
• The correct name for a bunch of bananas is a hand and a single banana is a finger

• In the UK we eat over 5 billion bananas a year (on average, that’s 100 bananas per person!)
  
  
• Bananas have been available to buy in the UK since 1888, when the very first consignment arrived through Irish company Fyffes; the world’s largest banana producer today.