There is one myth Blow is keen to put to bed: “People are often told by their mates ‘you need to eat bananas because you need potassium’.
"For starters, bananas don’t have tons of potassium in them. And even if they had, that’s probably not going to be the likely scenario, because being deficient in potassium is quite a serious condition.
"Ironically, it may cause cramps; potassium is the counterbalancing electrolyte to sodium in fluid balance. But most people aren’t walking round with a severe potassium deficiency, if they were they’d be hospitalised.”
That’s, that then – no bananas needed - unless you just like them, and are looking for a healthy carbohydrate hit.