Why You Should Start Going Bananas Over Coconut Water



Good Things for Potassium:  Bananas and Coconut



Ever have a taste for a banana but only have lime green bananas or mushy black ones in your fruit bowl, like me? I just stare at them and wish that they were yellow... and ripe... and creamy-tasting.

Mmmm...bananas are so tasty and so full of energizing potassium. But bottled coconut water is becoming the handiest way  for me to get a daily dose of nutrients like potassium.

Keeping a bottle of coconut water stashed in my office desk or gym bag is just very handy for me.

According to  the USDA nutrient database, 1 cup of coconut water has about 600 mg of potassium versus 422 mg in 1 ripe banana.

Losing Potassium Big Time

You may want to start drinking coconut water if eating a banana regularly is getting harder and especially if you are losing vital potassium from your body because of  any of the following reasons:

• You are a big time coffee drinker, downing 3 or more 8 oz. cups of java every morning;
• You drink caffeinated soda pops throughout the day;
• Your prescription medication makes you go to the bathroom more often;
• You strictly follow the rule to drink 8 or more glasses of plain, H20 water a day; or,
• You work-out and work-up a real sweat.

How Bananas Can Be Annoying

Perhaps you are not eating as many bananas because of one or more of the following reasons:

• Bananas give you indigestion and/or gas;
• You can’t eat-up fresh yellow ripe bananas fast enough before they get over ripened;
• Bananas cost too much at your office’s kiosk or at the gym’s café;
• You just don’t like the fishy or “bad water” taste that many bananas seem to have these days; or,
• Your body cannot handle the blood sugar changes when you eat a banana.

Don’t get me wrong: Drinking coconut water will never replace eating a tasty banana or other potassium-rich foods like yogurt, watermelon or salad tomatoes. 

 All I am saying is that a quick gulp of  the natural refreshment  that's in  a bottle of coconut water is indeed a quick and easy "good thing".  I like to think of coconut water as the original convenience food.