It may be the answer to a poor hypertension sufferer's prayers. Eating just two bananas a day will help bring down blood pressure.
Volunteers taking part in an Indian study can verify that claim.
Researchers put members of a medical college in Manipal, southern India, on a daily regimen of two bananas. Increased levels of a substance called angiotensin-2 in the body bring a corresponding rise in pressure because they cause the blood vessels to constrict. But the drugs are expensive - they bring in billions of dollars to pharmaceutical companies each year. Bananas would be a much cheaper alternative, even if it might be difficult to get a precise dose of the active compounds. Writing in the journal Current Science, the Indian scientists report finding ACE-inhibiting properties in six varieties of banana.