Yo, are there are specific benefits to eating fruits that are not yet completely ripe?

November 14, 2008 | By antioxidant In AntiOxidant benefits |
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Essay W asked:


I’m talking slightly green bananas; plums and pears that are quite hard. I understand antioxidants levels go up with some fruit once it’s ripe. But I like slightly green bananas and can’t be arsed to wait for fruits to ripen sometimes - i’m just too hungry!

 

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6 Comments so far

  1. teddy on November 18th, 2008

    You have to be a bit careful with unripened fruit, can give you quite a bad stomach ache, and the squits….

  2. Nik on November 18th, 2008

    If anything, I want to say more fiber, but that’s just a guess and I have nothing to back it up.

  3. Bob W on November 19th, 2008

    Yo, Dartez or Shemyia….do as you want…no benefits and no downside

  4. Jooles on November 19th, 2008

    Greener bananas contain more plantains which are believed to have many benefits, including being very good for the stomach lining.

  5. Luvfactory on November 22nd, 2008

    Because they are less sweet, I suppose their sugar content is lower than that of ripe fruits. The only benefit I can see is lower calorie intake, if you can call that a benefit.

    nickoscar…. That’s a classic! I couldn’t stop laughing!

  6. nickoscar on November 26th, 2008

    It is the best time to eat them,you will develop immunities to all manner of diseases,believe me ,as kids the only fruit we ever got was what we scrumped,therefore we had to get to it before the owners picked them,(as they ripened) sure we had the runs occasionally, but that is no bad thing to have a good clear out, I am now 96, helped the Japs build a railway
    through the jungle of thailand, still get a hard on at least 5 times a week, have buried 4 wives, now on my 5th, drives a
    Honda FR-V, sings in a choir, does the gardenening, cooks dinner most days. Another thing we kids ate was any leaves from various trees,raw rhubarb, new shoots of the wild rose &
    blackberry bushes,peeling off the thorns first, in fact we were so hungry,we ate anything that could be eaten and a few things that could,nt, I have never had a broken bone,the only time I have been in hospital was for a head wound, take no form of medication,and have only visited a doctor once sinceWW2.

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