Do You Combine Rice and Banana as a Meal?

Rice and banana is a common combination here in Nigeria. Whether na jollof rice or white rice and stew, banana is a common accompaniment. People either peel off the back of as many bananas as they want, cut them in circular shapes and place it on top the rice or peel off the back of as many bananas as they want and place the fingers on the rice. Each spoon of rice is accompanied by banana in it's journey into the stomach.

Before I started this post I asked my neighbor randomly if she eats rice and banana and her reply was "yeeees, it's good". Some of you may not know this combo and I won't blame you. I'll just assume that you do not know a lot of other combinations people put into their stomach and since I am an extremely nice person sometimes, I will make a post and it would be titled "Naija Ridiculous Food Combinations". Help your ministry and look out for it.

Rice and Banana isn't ridiculous. It actually tastes really nice and many people do not know it's an unhealthy combination. Rice should not be eaten with banana. Fruits should totally not be eaten with food. They do not get along well. It might taste good to your mouth and your brain but not to your stomach. Your stomach and all it's tenants hate it. Lot's of evil happens in there when you mix fruits and food.

According you mindbodygreen.com, fruit should be eaten alone or with other fruit on an empty stomach. This is because when fruit is eaten, the digestive process works very quickly and our body uses different enzymes to digest the fruit. The simple sugars contained in fruit need time to be completely absorbed by your body. When fruits are eaten alone, your stomach can more easily process all of the nutrients, fibre and the simple sugars contained in the fruit. This is the optimal 'proper way' to benefit from the fruit you eat. If you eat fruit close to a meal, especially right after a larger meal and combine with other foods, it's held in the stomach too long along with other foods and will rot and ferment in the gut. If you experience indigestion, heartburn, burping and and other digestive discomforts and you blame on the meal - it could be the combination of the food, the fermentation with fruit that causes your upset stomach. If left uncontrolled it could lead to health problems that stem from the digestive tract.

Please, my fellow Countrymen, stop eating Rica and Banana. Eat banana and whatever fruit an hour or two before your rice or an hour or two after your rice.