Some people swear by a morning banana, while others avoid them entirely over concerns about sugar content.

Understanding what actually happens in your body when a banana is the first thing you eat after waking up can help settle the debate. After 6 to 8 hours of sleep, your body has essentially been fasting, with energy reserves gradually declining while your brain, muscles, and organs keep working. The first food you choose can meaningfully influence how you feel for the rest of the morning.

https://dailyhealthpost.com/eating-a-banana-first-thing-in-the-morning/

Why such obsession with health lately?

Something?

This morning I had actually had 2 bananas with a cup of coffee. Then I went to the gym an ran 5 Km's in 33 minutes and then did the rest of my workout. Should I be concerned? Bananas have been my morning meal before workouts for 35 years. Did marathons, 10K's and many other road races and so far "I'm still here and still vertical".

Overripe bananas, or any overripe fruit for that matter will have loads of sugar.

My typical morning breakfast, when I was in the USA and grapefruits were available:

Orange Juice

Three eggs

Grapefruit

Whole wheat toast.

Maybe some bacon

Black coffee

In Thailand:

Orange juice or some other kind of juice

Three eggs

Kiwi, an orange, or a bananna

Black coffee

I'm 75, perfect bloodwork, and I'm still running around doing whatever.

1 hour ago, novacova said:

Overripe bananas, or any overripe fruit for that matter will have loads of sugar.

The sugar is high so after eating a banana one must move and move. The worst thing to do after eating one is to go back to sleep or just sit on your butt. Been eating one or two on a daily basis for 35 years and BMI has been 22 or less.

12 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

The sugar is high so after eating a banana one must move and move. The worst thing to do after eating one is to go back to sleep or just sit on your butt. Been eating one or two on a daily basis for 35 years and BMI has been 22 or less.

I eat 1 or 2 bananas every night before I sleep the potassium helps me sleep better

Funny thing, back in Texas I rarely ate bananas, but do daily here now. Texas has quite a lot of fruits, like Thailand, but are easier to find and much less expensive. I ate nectarines, blueberries, raspberries, peaches, pears, plums, apples of many varieties, strawberries and an occasional banana. After H Pylori eradication here, the gut took a beating from the antibiotic regimen, so bananas, more rice and toast have been on the daily menu, along with probiotics, sauerkraut, kimchi and more yogurt, and it's improved since.

Back home, breakfast was usually whole grain cereal with blueberries sometimes, wholegrain toast with Dalfours Jelly, and after leaving, an iced coffee on the road. Here it's oatmeal with banana, two scrambled eggs, almond or soy milk, wholegrain toast with Dalfours and iced coffee. Some bananas here are really good and some bland, and I find many varieties here.

My local supermarkets have not been graced by bananas for weeks now.

Tried 4 Tescos ,1 Big C and 4 7/11s

Yes, they have no bananas , they have no bananas for me.

Market has big bunches of small ones but even they look manky.

3 hours ago, novacova said:

Overripe bananas, or any overripe fruit for that matter will have loads of sugar.

No one has ever become diabetic from eating fruit, you can eat as much as you like, just stop eating processed, junk food and stop drinking sodas etc

11 minutes ago, trucking said:

My local supermarkets have not been graced by bananas for weeks now.

Tried 4 Tescos ,1 Big C and 4 7/11s

Yes, they have no bananas , they have no bananas for me.

Market has big bunches of small ones but even they look manky.

Some markets will carry the larger bananas but you'll have to search. Where I live, the main town has many markets, and specific day markets and there are a lot of people who sell them, but only a few certain places where I can get good large or medium size bananas in both green and yellow. Many sell the little finger and next size bananas but I prefer the larger sizes. Tesco carries good ones but they're cheaper elsewhere. 7-11 they're 9 baht each and you can get a large hand of bananas for 40 baht or less with 10 or more. You might ask locals where they sell the larger ones.

Best to eat bananas green when the resistant starch is still high.

Sugar wise........

Fructose is grabbed by the liver to prevent it going into your blood stream......if it gets in its like CO is to Oxygen.

The sucrose is split into glucose and fructose where the fructose is again grabbed by the liver.

Read up on it last week after starting to test my 'roll out of bed' blood sugars.

Plenty in Ching Mai!

Definitely. Two every day on top of overnight oats.

On 7/15/2026 at 10:13 PM, 3NUMBAS said:

Understanding what actually happens in your body when a banana is the first thing your mouth

Ask my wife

I eat too many banana's because I have 2 banana trees and when they start to ripen,

it is eat or put in the freezer.

As breakfast or as desert after a meal.

I suggested banana to my Thai gf for breakfast using google translate- she told me no boom boom before 11am

I think something may have got lost in the translation?

On 7/15/2026 at 5:13 PM, 3NUMBAS said:

The first food you choose can meaningfully influence how you feel for the rest of the morning.

No food — just coffee — is an excellent beginning of the day for me...👍

But later on during the day, we are some in the house that loves a banana or two...😄

I eat a modest portion of porridge with a little honey, chopped banana,apple and sweet corn. The porridge seems to form a plug that prevents my next day early morning IBS diarrhea...555.

On 7/17/2026 at 4:25 PM, MIke B Bad said:

Best to eat bananas green when the resistant starch is still high.

Are green bananas even edible?

Must taste horrible?

They even sell green banana starch powder. Not sure what people do with it? Bake I guess.

20 hours ago, save the frogs said:

Are green bananas even edible?

Must taste horrible?

They even sell green banana starch powder. Not sure what people do with it? Bake I guess.

Yes....not a fan by any means, but definitely healthier as it avoids a sugar rush

If you eat them with a little green they have less sugar and more fibre

On 7/17/2026 at 4:20 PM, SAFETY FIRST said:

No one has ever become diabetic from eating fruit, you can eat as much as you like, just stop eating processed, junk food and stop drinking sodas etc

Yes, except diabetics should not eat fruit with high potassium, such as bananas and oranges. Not me, but bummer.

princess anne eats a black banana every day for brekkers its said

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVqYRse1O44

It's cortisol that keeps you fat, regardless of exercise and nutrition. Become more Zen, no screens in the morning, ground your feet in sand or grass, train your sleep cycles, relax, feel happy, make love to your wife, just feel life when you wake up. Your belly fat will shred.