I'd like to share some tips about banana peels, some of them I use daily.
Banana is a fruit growing on trees in tropical areas.
It is consumed as a fruit and as part of dishes. Different cultures include bananas in their traditional meals.
The banana tree is a generous one. Besides its fruits, its leaves, flowers, and trunk are used in several industries.
Surprisingly, the use of the banana peels is not widely known.
Stop throwing away banana peels!
16 significant benefits of banana peels:
1- There are many banana peels recipes, especially in the Indian Cuisine so they can be eaten.
2- If you'd like to tenderize meat or chicken, try adding a ripe banana peel to the pan. It should keep your meat juicy.
Banana skin will benefit your skin:
3- Rubbing the inside of it during a couple of minutes, may help with acne problems. Do not wash afterward letting the minerals continue working.
4- Wrinkles can also be treated with bananas' interior skin. They could help reduce their appearance due to their vitamin C
And antioxidants content.
5- Healing bruises and hematoma of tissue could be treated applying a banana peel to the skin, either rubbing or taping it during the night to the affected area.
6- Warts could also be good candidates for a banana skin treatment. Applying the inside of it during the night, several times, may reduce their size and even cause the total disappearance of the wart.
7- Curing pimples with a banana skin is also a good practice. Just massage the affected area every day for 5 minutes, until the pimple disappears.
8- The moisturizing properties of the banana skin may help with healing psoriasis. The treatment should be similar to the pimple cure.
9- It is recommended to apply banana peel to the skin after mosquito bites. The relief should be immediate.
10- Whiten teeth, taking advantage of the potassium in the banana peel is a must to try. Coat the teeth with the inside of the peel, leaving it for 10 minutes. After this, remove the residue brushing your teeth with toothpaste.
Benefits of the peels at home:
11- Banana skin is also suitable for cleaning tarnished silver. After rubbing the silverware with the peel, wash it only with water and dry it with a paper towel or a clean cloth. The silver will shine again.
12- Polishing shoes with the banana skin is a safe method to try. Natural oils present in the skin will protect the leather and the potassium will bring shininess to the shoes.
The role of banana peels in the garden.
13- Banana skin could be part of the ingredients producing compost.
14- Burying peels into the soil near plants, will act as fertilizing them. This method is useful for roses; they'll love the potassium of the peels.
15- Aphids don't like banana peels. Sprinkling them around plants may get rid of them.
16- Banana peel powder may extract heavy metal contamination from river water. Fertilizers including phosphates also include Cadmium. Mixing the powder and stirring during one hour may remove up to 65 % of the heavy metal in the water.
My pic with my MI smartphone.