How Many Calories In A Banana?
Nutrional Information Per 100g Of Raw, Peeled Banana
| Calories | 95.0kcal |
|---|---|
| Carbohydrate | 20.9g |
| Protein | 1.2g |
| Fat | 0.3g |
| Fibre | 4.2g |
For every 100g of banana that is raw and without skin there is approximately 95 calories, the International Banana Association says the average weight of a banana is 120g, so on average a whole banana that is raw and without skin will have 114 calories. That goes for every single banana, so you’ll never have to ask the question how many calories in a banana again!
The recommended calorie intake per day for a female adult is 2000 calories so an average sized banana is 5.7% of your daily calorie allowance and it is also one of your five a day. For male adults the recommended calorie intake per day is slightly higher at 2500, so a normal sized banana would be 4.6% of the correct daily calorie intake.
If you are dieting then bananas are a perfect fruit to include in your meals plans as they contain nearly no fat, for every 100g of raw, peeled banana there is only around 0.3g of fat. To put that into perspective, that is just around 0.4% of your daily recommended fat intake, that’s for men and women, you’d need to eat around 250 bananas in a day to go over!
In terms of cost as well, bananas are extremely cheap, in the US you can get bananas for around $0.60 to $1.60 per pound (varies across the US) and in the UK you can get bananas for approximately £1 per kilogram.
They have a huge amount of uses as well along with just eating them normally, you can add them to breakfast cereals, make smoothies or fresh juice with them or even add them to ice cream or chocolate for a moderately health dessert.
Did You Know…
- Bananas are actually the world’s most popular fruit, in the United States of America alone more bananas are eaten than both apples and oranges combined, with each American consuming (on average) approximately 27 lbs of bananas per year.
- If you are feeling ill then eating a banana will make you feel much better as they contain on average a sixth of your daily vitamin C intake, a vitamin that really helps your body when you’re feeling unwell.
- Bananas originated from Asia, but they are now grown mainly in places like South America, Central America and the Caribbean because of their year round warm climates.
- As a banana ripens, the starch inside will turn into sugar. That’s why the longer you leave a banana to ripen, the sweeter it will taste and it’s also why ripe bananas are much softer.
- It is believed by the majority of horticultural experts that the banana was the world’s first fruit, there are even records dating back to 327 B.C. mentioning bananas.
- The bananas you see in your stores are Cavendish bananas and they are all clones of one another, this means fungal infections could easily wipe out every single Cavendish banana as they are genetically identical.
- There are actually over 1000 different types or species of banana, some of them are simply taste too disgusting to eat, whilst the rest just aren’t as delicious as the popular Cavendish banana.
- Bananas are the fourth highest consumed agricultural product in the world, behind food giants wheat, rice and corn in that order. In fact, over 100 billion bananas are consumed every year all over the world.
- Whilst Americans eat on average 26 pounds of bananas per year, people from Uganda will eat a whopping 500 bananas on average per year, making it their staple diet.