They are the good mood food. Convenience and nutritional value of bananas make them a good post-exercise snack. During long exercises your body loses vitamins and minerals and a banana replaces these nutrients as well as giving you the energy you need. Bananas are good for babies, too. They are in fact often the first solid food given to infants.
Bananas are easy to digest because they have no fat and very few babies are allergic to bananas.
They are also one of children's favorite snack because of their taste and they meet the energy needs of the growing children. Green tipped bananas should be selected for cooking or ripening, yellow ones should be selected for eating and brown-specked ones should be selected for baking breads, muffins and cookies. As the bananas ripen, they will taste sweeter because the starch in the fruit will turn to sugar. You can toss bananas to your cereals, salads, yogurt, salsa, smoothie or shakes. You should store your bananas over the counter at room temperature until they reach the ripeness you want, then you can store them in the refrigerator.