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Yeah but who wants to eat dandelions? And potatoes get boring fast.
Having a sweet fruit thats extremely cheap and accessable helps fit the niche.
You don’t need to cook a banana to eat it and it takes under a minute to eat one.
You better be joking comrade. Potatoes feed the masses. Don't be dissing the people's food.
I'm not saying not to eat bananas, but if your goal is potassium, there's way better options. It would take 9 bananas to get your daily intake vs like 4 medium sized potatoes... or like 3 cups of beat greens or 4 cups of swiss chard or spinach leaves. You could literally make a medium sized salad and get the whole go of potassium right there and have less than half your daily calories in.
https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/food-sources-potassium
Also, I'm just gonna say it, bananas are a pain in the ass to manage. You get a whole bunch and then there like a 3 day window for when they are good to eat. So I guess it's good you need to eat so many to get in that potassium. lol. I mean sure, you could eat them when they aren't fully ripe... if you are a psychopath, and sure, when they are overripe you can make banana bread, but like, nobody does that. Potatoes? Leave those things in an old cupboard for like 3 or 4 months, or longer, and they will still be good. Dry them into powder and have instant mashed potatoes whenever. There's like, a bajillion ways to cook potatoes and add them to other dishes.
Thesis: bananas
Antithesis: potatoes
Synthesis: plantains
That's fair. Plantains have about 50% more potassium than bananas which is also around 50-60% less than a potato. Lmao
I always saw plantains as potato-like bananas.
They really are. More starchy, better if you cook them. Don't get me wrong, bananas are delicious, but man are they sugar/carb heavy. Only time I eat em now is when it's a Friday, I've had some beers, my diet died 2 hours ago, I have no shame, a jar of peanut butter, and there just so happens to be someone else's uneaten bananas on the counter about to go bad.... I know this sound really specific, but it's not an uncommon occurrence.
Dandelions are actually delicious. I’ve had dandelion tempura before and it was the best.
But yeah, that’s a tempura. Meaning it’s cooked.
No one is going to be eating dandelions raw like they do bananas.
Does a salad count?
Maybe, but the dandelion is still carried due to working with other elements of the salad.
Plus making the salad is still “cooking”, and takes time, as opposed to the seconds it takes to peel a banana.
I’m not anti-dandelion, and it makes sense as part of a balanced diet. But internet point is mainly that it’s not as yummy or convenient as a banana.
Sure, time’s a point for the convenience of bananas, but I’d question the use of “cooking,” as I’d associate the word with applying heat. The raw food movement people still prepare their food, but they don’t “cook” it.
True, but that’s mostly semantics. If you say you cooked a steak or made a salad, you’re still preparing food, and everyone knows what you mean.