The keto diet, or ketogenic is a somewhat restrictive diet that usually gives very good results when it comes to losing fat, although it was not really invented for that, but had another objective within the field of health. Today we want to know if we can eat banana on the keto diet or, on the contrary, should we eliminate it from our diet.
Fruits are very important in our daily diet, in fact, we should eat 5 different pieces a day, but sometimes it is difficult to meet these minimums, either due to lack of time, because we do not like all fruits or they suit us or because we don’t feel like it.
The banana is one of the most consumed fruits in the world and, especially, in Spain, since here we have a denomination of origin (protected by the European Union) with the Canarian Banana . Although everything changes if we are immersed in a ketogenic diet.
The keto diet eliminates all carbohydrates from our diet and only allows a maximum of 20 or 30 grams of carbohydrates per day . The normal thing is that an average adult consumes between 200 and 350 grams of carbohydrates a day, so the difference is enormous. This diet was devised in the 1920s and 1930s to reduce epileptic seizures in children, and it turned out to be a very effective weight loss diet.
Leaving aside the history of this well-known diet, we are going to focus on whether bananas are allowed or not, and for this, it is necessary to know how much carbohydrates a single medium-normal size banana has.
No, bananas are not keto
A standard size banana has between 23 and 24 grams of carbohydrates, which is more than the amount of carbohydrates that is allowed in this diet. Before we said that the maximum is 30 grams, but if we eat a banana, the rest of the day we should drastically reduce our food intake.
These carbohydrates increase depending on how ripe the banana is. Therefore, if one day because we are away from home or we feel like it, we should eat it unripe, but not green because they are indigestible. Even so, we already know that bananas are not accepted within the ketogenic diet .
Bananas provide vitamin A, C, B1, B2, B6, B9, and E, as well as essential minerals such as potassium, magnesium, iron, selenium, zinc, and calcium. A very tasty fruit that combines perfectly with others, with yogurt, ice cream, chocolate, etc. and it even helps us create very healthy omelettes with oatmeal.
There are other fruits rich in vitamins and minerals that are accepted in the keto diet such as blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, orange, coconut, watermelon, melon, peach, lemon, plums, tangerines, cherries, among others.
As an alternative to bananas on the keto diet, we could eat avocado, which has a texture very similar to the yellow fruit, and which is also very rich in nutrients, such as its vitamins K, C, B5, B6, B9 and E , and its minerals. Not to mention its healthy fats, dietary fiber, which is free of cholesterol, etc.
