Bananas are one of the most common fruits in our life. They are very nutritious and are called happy fruits. When it comes to bananas, I have to mention the most famous effect of bananas-laxation. In life, if someone is constipated, people around him will tell him to eat some bananas. Bananas have always been the representative of laxation in our hearts. Many constipated people often eat bananas to promote defecation.But a lot of people who are constipated find that eating bananas does not have a laxative effect and think that bananas do not have a laxative effect?

Can eating bananas promote defecation?

Bananas are rich in vitamins and other nutrients, eating will have a lot of benefits to the body. Bananas are rich in dietary fiber content, dietary fiber can promote digestion and intestinal peristalsis, so eating bananas is to promote the role of defecation, so that defecation becomes more smooth. Often eat bananas to help alleviate and improve constipation.

Since eating bananas can promote defecation, why do some people become more constipated when they eat bananas?

In fact, eating bananas can promote defecation, but also can make people constipated, the reason for this difference is: the maturity of bananas to eat. If you eat ripe bananas, can promote defecation. But if you eat raw bananas, but will lead to increased constipation.

Why to eat raw banana, can aggravating constipation?

Before bananas are ripe, there will be an acid in them, which is difficult to dissolve and will inhibit intestinal peristalsis, thus leading to difficult defecation. If you eat a lot of raw bananas, your stool will become very dry, making it difficult to defecate, and even causing or aggravating constipation. If constipated people eat raw bananas for defecation, it can be said that it will add fuel to the fire, and constipation will become more serious.

Maybe many people will think, who will take the initiative to buy raw bananas, the surface is so green, eat particularly astringent, certainly no one will buy to eat ah. We buy bananas are bought ripe yellow bananas, obviously ripe, also impassable ah.

In fact, the seemingly ripe yellow banana you bought may not be a real ripe banana, but a ripened banana. Like raw bananas, ripened bananas are easy to be constipated. As we know, bananas have a very short storage period. In order to facilitate maintenance and transportation, most bananas will be picked before ripening, and then sent to a place for ripening.The ripened banana is only a change in color, eating is still very astringent, and there are still acids in the raw banana, so eating is not laxative.

Here is a small tip for choosing bananas, that is, when buying bananas, you can smell them. If bananas smell very raw, even if they look good, they look ripe, and most of them are not ripe. If bananas don’t smell raw, they have a unique sweet taste of bananas, then most of the bananas are ripe and eat very delicious. If you buy raw bananas, it’s okay to leave them at home for two days, and then eat them after they are ripe, delicious and laxative.

If defecation is very difficult, constipation, in addition to eating bananas, such as apples, pitaya, sweet potatoes, corn, oats and other foods rich in dietary fiber to eat more, ordinary diet to eat more fruits and vegetables, eat less greasy food. Ordinary time should also drink more water, so as not to lack of stool becomes dry, increase defecation difficulties. Should also exercise, can speed up the peristalsis of the intestinal tract to promote defecation. And usually should also develop the habit of defecation on time.Only by developing a good way of life and diet can we really drive away constipation.