Talk:Banana

The redirect בננה has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 13 § בננה until a consensus is reached. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 07:10, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

I have also listed many more foreign redirects there. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 08:53, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

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The nutrient values should be explained in terms of an average banana. People know what that is, but not many know what 100 g of banana is. ~2025-32891-11 (talk) 01:10, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. However, all food articles use a standard format here, as the FAO and other reliable sources do. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:11, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I think the article may be misleading for the layman since it states -correctly- that a banana possesses moderate amounts of nutrients. From which the layman could -wrongly- conclude that bananas aren't much of interest to promote human health (or that of some animal species). Actually, bananas are packed with promising phytochemicals. WP:EN itself acknowledges the "complementary" (vis-à-vis nutrients) role of phytochemicals for human health. Here is an example of an elaborated and devoid of conflict of interests article about the compounds typically found in bananas and whether they should catch our attention https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772753X24002090 ~2026-63064-3 (talk) 21:46, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

The term promising phytochemicals is the misleading statement. The phytochemicals identified in the source you provided - phenolics, flavonoids, saponin, and steroids - have no proven dietary or in vivo biological value, and are not considered to be nutrients. Upon eating a banana, these phytochemicals are rapidly digested, metabolized, and excreted - indicating their relative unimportance to nutrition. See this discussion. The phytochemicals article gives a similar definition of non-functionality.

Except for providing a modest amount of vitamin B6 (nutrition section), a banana provides little nutrition, and should just be enjoyed as a tasty snack.

Further, the journal of the source, Food Chemistry Advances, should be treated as unreliable, as it is not MEDLINE-indexed, and so may be predatory. Zefr (talk) 22:39, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm not enough of an expert on food science to weigh in strongly on the proposal to add info about the phytochemicals in bananas. My layman's opinion is that it would be fine to add a factual sentence saying they contain phytochemicals (without "promising") or to link to the article providing more information about compounds in bananas. I *am* an academic librarian and Food Chemistry Advances is a newer journal - began in 2022 and is not widely indexed, but it is published by Elsevier and has a credentialled editorial board, so not very likely to be "predatory". I do think an additional citation from a stronger journal would enhance the proposed contribution. Sharp-shinned.hawk (talk) 13:36, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

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