Show l I Good Health I S AND HOW TO lEEP IT j 1 BANANA VALUABLE FOOD I WHEN EATEN RIPE So many people claim they cannot cannot can can- I not eat bananas b because cause this fruit does not agree with them I The Tile average stomach will digest I the banana all right l if it is given I the right kind of a banana The trouble lies Hes in the fact that we I commonly buy and eat unripe bananas I This fruit is fully ripe and ready to to e eat t only when the peel is golden I and freely speckled with brown patches Some Some people children 1 es especially wrongly object to uch such 1 bananas and say they are overripe If people would confine them themselves selves to such bananas as these I there here would be no bowel dis- dis as the green banana is apt to produce Furthermore experiment has shown that the sugar in a ripe banana is very completely absorbed absorbed ab ab- ab- ab from the intestine and made madeus us use of by the body On the other hand if we eat bananas not fully ripe the starch of the fruit has not been as completely completely com corn changed into sugar and the food substances substance of the fruit are not as available for the body The Tho banana has been called the poor joor mans man's fruit because it Is always in season and readily ob obtaInable obtainable ob- ob tamable at a reasonable price When we examine into the tho composition composition com corn position of f fresh esh fruits we we find that th t. t the banana has greater food value than any other common fruit its ne nearest rest competitor being the grape However It is too bulky and contains too little protein and energy en en- ergy bigy tt to permit Its use as the sole article of ot diet A man of of average size would have to eat cat between eighty and andI ninety bananas daily to satisfy I protein requirements |