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Eating Ripe versus Unripe Bananas

The healthy and delightful tasting Banana is a perfect example of a lot of misunderstandings when it comes to the amount of sugar it contains since it depends on when you eat it during the ripening process. This is because during the ripening process, bananas produce a plant hormone called ethylene, which stimulates an enzyme (amylase) that breaks down the starchy component into sugar. … Continue readingEating Ripe versus Unripe Bananas

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