Taste characteristics
The easiest way to make coffee with banana is to add a little banana syrup to your coffee drink. Thick with a rich taste based on fruit puree, it will be an excellent pairing for an invigorating drink, and thanks to the natural sweetness of the fruit, it will allow you to do without sugar.
- Coffee made with bananas is very nutritious, quickly saturates the body, leaving you feeling full for a long time.
- Since the drink is quite sweet, those who are on a diet or don’t really like sweets should not use sugar, honey, syrups (or at a minimum).
- Neither coffee nor bananas should be consumed on an empty stomach. Therefore, the recipes below are not suitable as a breakfast replacement. It is better to include them in one of the main meals or use them as a snack during the day.
Bad couple. 8 pairs of products that cannot be combined – bit.ua
Probably everyone knows about the poor compatibility of herring and milk.
We talk about non-obvious combinations of products that harm the body.
BUCKWHEAT AND MILK
Milk is rich in calcium, and buckwheat is rich in iron. Separately, these products are beneficial for the body, but when they are combined, calcium and iron interfere with the absorption of each other. As a result, instead of double benefit, we get nothing. Try to eat iron-fortified and dairy products at different times.
SANDWICH WITH CHEESE AND COFFEE
A popular breakfast combination will not do your body any good. Simple carbohydrates in bread will prevent calcium from being absorbed from cheese. Coffee in this process will only aggravate the situation, especially if it is instant. A healthier pairing is a green tea sandwich, although this pairing is not ideal.
CUCUMBERS AND TOMATOES
It’s hard to imagine, but the standard salad in our latitudes is an unsuccessful food combination. Cucumbers paired with tomatoes disrupt the biochemical reactions of the body, and the consequences are not encouraging: failure to absorb vitamins, excess salt and swelling. Combine tomatoes with red onions, and cucumbers with herbs.
BANANA AND MILK
Contrary to popular belief, bananas with milk are not healthy, although they are tasty and nutritious. Nutritionists believe that fruits should not be mixed with other foods, in particular this applies to sweet types. Such fruits slow down digestion and are poorly absorbed in any combination. Set aside a separate time for bananas: they are great for snacking alone.
PASTA AND MINT MEAT
I can’t believe that lasagna, bolognese, good old navy pasta and dumplings are bad! It turns out that this combination can lead to the development of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. The enzymes amylase and ptyalin in saliva break down starchy carbohydrates (paste) into sugars, and sugars, when combined with proteins, have a destructive effect on the body.
Combine pasta with vegetable sauces, and make fillings for dumplings from vegetables.
SALTED NUTS AND BEER
Beer lovers live under conditions of cruel deception. Salty snacks for beer are a cunning and thoughtful move. Salty food leads to dehydration and the desire to drink another glass, and this is additional profit for bars.
PINEAPPLE AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
For some reason, yogurt with pineapple has received undeserved fame as a dietary product. This combination is a bad option for a snack or breakfast. In principle, it is not recommended to eat sour fruits in the morning, because they slow down digestion. In addition, the well-known enzyme bromelain in pineapple is not compatible with dairy products: this combination leads to intoxication of the body. Buy natural yogurt without additives and supplement it with dried apricots or prunes.
POTATOES AND MEAT
Another disappointment! This pair of products is a big burden for the body. To digest starchy potatoes, an alkaline environment is required, and for protein meat, an acidic environment is required. Together, these products lengthen the digestive process and give unpleasant bonuses: bloating and heartburn. It is better to combine meat with green or leafy vegetables: Brussels sprouts or cauliflower, zucchini, asparagus or spinach.
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With cream
- 1-1.5 tsp. ground coffee (fine grind);
- ½ banana;
- 100 ml water;
- 30 ml cream with at least 30% fat content;
- 1/3 tsp. powdered sugar;
- sugar.
How to cook:
- Brew coffee in any convenient way, you can use a coffee machine. This can be espresso or a Turkish recipe (just reduce the amount of water).
- Cut the peeled banana into medium slices.
- Beat cream with powdered sugar.
- Place the banana in a blender bowl, pour in hot coffee, and blend.
- Pour the coffee-banana liquid into a cup. Gently spoon whipped cream on top.
If desired, sprinkle the drink with topping.
The choice is large and limited only by the taste of the cook. This could be, for example, grated chocolate, cinnamon, orange zest, coconut flakes, ground almonds. Cupcakes, muffins, cookies or waffles are perfect for this cocktail. However, it is worth remembering that the drink itself is quite high in calories, and adding baked goods will only increase the calories. Therefore, you should not enjoy it too often, or include it in the evening menu.
With ice cream
- 200 ml brewed coffee;
- half a banana;
- 1-2 tbsp. l. ice cream (cream ice cream tastes best, but any vanilla ice cream will do);
- a pinch of cinnamon (optional).
In this recipe, it doesn't matter how the coffee is prepared, so you can use any proven method.
So, brew the drink and let it cool a little. Meanwhile, peel the banana, cut into medium pieces, place in a food processor, sprinkle with cinnamon and pour in coffee. Beat until smooth.
And then the preparation can be in two ways.
The first is to pour the drink into glasses and add ice cream. The second is to add the ice cream immediately and beat it together again, and only then pour it. Here you can experiment.
By the way, you don't need to add cinnamon. But it’s worth a try, it makes the taste of the cocktail much richer.
Tropical
- 100 ml chilled coffee;
- 200 ml milk;
- 1 banana;
- 2 tbsp. l. chocolate syrup;
- chocolate chips (for decoration).
Pre-brew the coffee and wait until it cools completely. Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth and fluffy. Pour into chilled glasses and garnish with chocolate chips. You can add some crushed ice.
Each of the recipes is interesting in its own way and will allow you to prepare an unusual dessert that will surely appeal to coffee lovers and not only.
For those who want to continue taste experiments with coffee and banana, coffee smoothie recipes will come in handy.
photo: depositphotos.com/tanatat
Angry critic: Banana against coffee and cancer
This time, the reason for the column was a question from one of the readers in a personal message: her barista friend claimed that in case of an overdose of caffeine, which is often found in his difficult profession, it is necessary to save yourself with bananas. The explanation is simple: bananas have a lot of potassium, coffee washes away potassium, which means, plus or minus, it gives what you need.
Moreover, both “Lifehackers” write about this, for example, both the original and the translated:
Note: they refer to some science that, as you understand, has been proven. There are no links to evidence, as you understand, - don’t you believe it? But here are living, real people who were helped. And this coincides with our own internal sensations, and therefore is true. And your research only confuses everything, there is no point in it (another quote from the discussion, by the way).
Traditionally, we start from the very beginning, that is, with caffeine intoxication. A safe daily dose is considered to be 500 mg of caffeine. Semi-lethal (DL50) - a single dose of 200 mg per kg of body weight. But if you recalculate this matter into liters, you will have to face one interesting problem. For example, there is no tea or coffee with a standard caffeine content in a certain volume of the finished drink. This is understandable - there are different varieties, cooking methods, time of contact of raw materials with water and a bunch of other variables.
The spread, according to Scottish students, can exceed 600% - from 50 to 322 mg of caffeine per standard 150 ml cup of espresso in 20 coffee shops in Glasgow, then the same group of now grown-up researchers continued their work in Italy and Spain, in all 104 points the spread remained about the same - 48-317 mg per serving of standard espresso. So, in general, it’s possible to get drunk on coffee. With a certain amount of persistence, of course. But mostly tableted caffeine still appears in the description of fatalities, and this is written about in specialized scientific journals (once, twice). Although one kangaroo hunter managed to pump himself up on Coca-Cola to the point of developing generalized muscle weakness, you need to understand that the doses were horse-dose: 4 liters every day for the previous three years, and on the night of the kangaroo hunt - 10 liters.
This is where we get to the bananas. Theoretically, they can be considered a source of potassium (358 mg per 100 g of product), because hypokalemia occurs during caffeine intoxication. But here the nuances begin. A decrease in serum potassium levels is not the biggest problem and certainly not the main link in the pathogenesis. An overdose of caffeine is, in fact, an overdose of catecholamines (adrenaline and norepinephrine), because it is with their massive release that the main clinical picture of poisoning is associated - headache, agitation, confusion (up to psychosis), tachycardia, chest pain, nausea, pain in the stomach, diarrhea and urinary incontinence. And there will be a lot of metabolic disorders: hyperglycemia due to the rapid breakdown of glycogen in the liver and the distillation of fats into glucose with the consequence of ketoacidosis up to coma, hyponatremia and hypokalemia. Plus, there will be destruction of muscle tissue (rhabdomyolysis) and “clogging” of the kidneys with myoglobin released from it with the development of acute renal failure.
The loss of potassium during caffeine intoxication is massive, a banana per os will not help, here you need to let potassium flow through your veins, as well as correct the acid-base state and other disorders. Somewhere I came across calculations for compensation of potassium lost during one single visit to the toilet during diarrhea, they were talking about several dozen bananas at one time. Yeah. Those who do not die from caffeine intoxication will die from acute dilatation of the stomach. Caffeine poisoning can only be treated in a toxicology hospital; as part of first aid, at best you can rinse the stomach and give a sorbent if the coffee has not yet traveled far through the gastrointestinal tract. And so you need oxygen, access to a vein, and then, depending on the situation, hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis may be required. By the way, caffeine in such doses is also hepatotoxic, which may result in the need for a liver transplant.
Even if we are not talking about outright intoxication, but only about an overdose, bananas will not save you. Washing the stomach, drinking rehydration solutions (a packet of rehydron contains 2.5 g of potassium, which is equivalent to about 700 g of bananas, plus sodium, citrates, chlorides and much more in the preparation), sorbents, fresh air - these are our choices. Well, keep an eye on your heart: if it decides to “jump”, don’t be a hero and call an ambulance, you won’t be able to do anything about arrhythmia at home, and if atrial or ventricular fibrillation starts, you won’t have time yet, this is precisely the main cause of death in case of coffee poisoning. And not just coffee. Only a few psychiatric patients managed to develop rhabdomyolysis after consuming oolong tea in increasing amounts, with a total of 15 liters of tea per day. And to die from hyperkalemia, that is, from an extremely high level of potassium in the blood, a 75-pound person needs to eat 487 bananas. Live now with this knowledge.
The second “banana” argument that I heard this week is the oncoprotective effect of this fruit.
The ringing bell the authors of this and similar articles heard was a 2009 publication by two Japanese researchers entitled Differences in Biological Response Modifier-like Activities According to the Strain and Maturity of Bananas. They actually studied the effect of bananas of different varieties and degrees of ripeness on immune system indicators. But, as with coffee, there are nuances.
First, nowhere in the article is it mentioned that bananas are capable of producing tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Otherwise, this would be a reason for a Nobel Prize - the signaling protein TNF is produced by lymphocytes, and lymphocytes are a privilege of vertebrates. Both options - bananas are vertebrates or lymphocytes are found in bananas - would be a sensation in science.
Secondly, the results were obtained in a mouse model. We can treat these animals for a bunch of diseases, including various oncopathologies, but this transfers to humans in about 8% of cases. That is, even if bananas suddenly helped mice in some way, it is not a fact that the same trick will work on people. Most likely no.
Thirdly, mice were injected with bananas intraperitoneally. So it’s logical that the animals’ immune systems were immediately surprised and activated their entire arsenal. I suspect that exactly the same effect could be obtained with mumiyo intraperitoneally. Or a piece of aloe there. Or what is enough imagination? How can we understand that this reaction was specific and related specifically to bananas? There were no comparison groups with anything else intraperitoneally edible. And this... if bananas could still synthesize TNF, then we would have to inject them too. In the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract, such a protein will very quickly be disassembled into spare parts.
Fourthly, even if certain substances in a banana, for example, serotonin and dopamine (the fruits contain them), can stimulate the production of TNF not only in mice, but also in humans, this does not mean any practical help for oncologists , because TNF has a lot of functions and a small cart, and the ability to inhibit oncogenesis is at the very bottom of that same cart. TNF is mainly involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, bronchial asthma, etc. It is also a pyrogen, that is, it causes a rise in body temperature. In general, TNF is not a substance that you would like to get as much of as possible.
And finally: it is better not to touch a normally functioning immune system. The immune system cannot be “boosted,” much less selectively influencing only one direction of its work, antitumor protection.
And with spotted bananas, not everything is so simple:
So think a hundred times, dear readers, before you put a bunch of spotted bananas on the New Year's table. You never know who can jump out of there. It would be good if it was just some kind of Peruvian banana-eater. What if black pudding is a disease with TNF at the ready? More valuable to yourself.
