Banana tea : nutrition facts and benefits.

Banana is one of the most common and popular fruits in the world. It is known for his high nutrient value and wonderful taste. This fruit is the first choice of health enthusiasts and used as an ingredient in various recipes.

Currently another recipe that is called Banana tea is gaining popularity. It is basically boiling a whole banana in water and then removing it and drinking the remaining liquid. Banana can be used with or without peel. It depends upon your taste preferences. Another term is given to it if it is made with peel called banana peel tea.

But most of the people just choose to omit the peel. Because of high fibre content in peels it require more time to prepare the tea. People, especially health enthusiasts love enjoying banana tea with some cinnamon and honey to improve its flavour.

• Nutrition fact of banana tea.

Although the detailed nutrition fact of banana tea is not available till the date. But then also some of the claims and small researches point towards some nutrients present in it.

As banana tea has banana the most prominent ingredients. So it is considered that banana tea will have similar nutrients as of whole banana. Add may provide with vitamin B6, potassium, magnesium, manganese and copper.

Just keep this in mind banana is removed before taking the tea. So this tea cannot be used as a substantial source of calories. Addition to this only small amounts of minerals like vitamin B6 and potassium will there be in the tea. One will not be able to get the amount of these minerals present in whole fruit through tea.

Now go through the below mentioned health benefits of using banana tea regularly.

• May have antioxidants content.

Several scientific studies claimed that bananas have water soluble antioxidants. Two of them are dopamine and gallocatechin. They are known to fight free radicals and prevent chronic conditions in the body.

There is a bad news for people who just remove peel before making banana tea. As peel has much more higher amounts of antioxidants than flesh.

• Have potentials to prevent bloating.

Banana tea has potassium as most of the nutrients content. It is a mineral that acts as an electrolyte to balance and regulate fluid, muscle contraction in body.

What a shame. Just acts with sodium and other minerals to form electrolyte. But still be aware of taking too much amounts of potassium, as it may experience water retention and bloating.

It’s a fact that water and potassium content of banana tea may help you to prevent bloating. The main cause of bloating is high salt diet.

• May help you to get a sound sleep.

Banana tea is currently gaining popularity as a sleeping aid. Potassium, magnesium and tryptophan are the three components present in banana tea that claimed to improve sleep.

Magnesium and potassium scientifically have shown their abilities in muscle relaxing and promoting sleep. Although till now no such study is available on sleep and banana tea exclusively.

So banana tea is basically putting banana in boiling water. Then removing banana and during the remaining liquid. It will provide you with some of the antioxidants and minerals. As a natural thing, it do not have any severe side effect on the body.