The oils inside a banana skin can actually help inflammation and itching caused by insect bites.
Green bananas have a very high starch content – as the fruit yellows, this starch turns into sugars.
The 2014 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics was won by a team that discovered why bananas are so slippery. They tell us that this is all due to the polysaccharide molecules in the peel, a substance also found in our joints.
Leather products like handbags or shoes can be polished with the inside of banana peels.
The perfect soil for growing bananas contain a ph. of between 5.5 and 6.5 and not be salty or too cold.
One of the biggest problems for bananas is root rot caused by the soil being too cold.