Breitbart: Radio Rebelde, the website of a state-sponsored radio station in Cuba, published an article urging Cubans to eat banana and plantain peels and use them as painkillers and skin cleansers, astute online observers noted on Thursday.
The Cuban interest website Periódico Cubano picked up on this week’s lifestyle advice from the Communist Party noting the extreme food, medicine, and fuel shortages in the country currently, the result of over half a century of communist rule and the collapse of the regime’s oil-rich colony Venezuela.
Radio Rebelde did not go as far as to suggest using banana peels to power cars, but the list of uses it claimed the food waste product reliable for was nonetheless prodigious.
“Plantain or banana is one of the most consumed fruits in the world,” the article began. “What you might not know is that the peel is just as nutritious as the interior: it contains iron, potassium, and vitamins B, C, and K and, if that were not enough, also contains good amounts of manganese, fiber, antioxidants, and copper.”
Among the uses for banana peel the article recommends is to smear it on the face for clearer, healthier skin; to use in healing mosquito bites; to wipe across the forehead as a painkiller; to whiten teeth by brushing them with peel; and to “improve humor.”
“Banana peel contains a good amount of tryptophan. This amino acid helps promote the production of serotonin, known as the ‘happiness hormone,’” Radio Rebelde claimed. “It regulates mood and if one has low levels of it, this translates into a bad mood, depression, and irritability.”
“With two banana peels a day for three consecutive days, you will raise serotonin levels up the 16 percent,” Cuban state media alleged. more here
Hell, yeah. Bake ’em, grind ’em up, and smoke ’em. They’ll make ya high.
Remember “Electrical Banana”, by Donovan?
^^ ‘Mellow Yellow’
They’re also about the best source you could find for highly concentrated pesticides, fungicides and other nutritionally nasty carcinogens and mutagens.
Next week-> ‘How to vape a banana’
I’m surprised they didn’t say you could also use them for toilet paper. Or maybe they’re saving that one for maduro.
In other woids, if ya got one foot on a banana peel… eat it!
Whutta country! Ain’t Socialism/Communist great!
Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQG0gWyTup8
aren’t bananas racist?
And just like that, the Cuban banana crop, which had practically grown itself for eons, failed all to hell in a puff of socialist magic.
So that’s why such countries are called “banana republics”…
https://sniggle.net/banana.php
Watch when it catches on that it can be good for humans, they’ll price it sky high.