Leave This Fruit Out of Your Next Berry Smoothie, Experiments Suggest

[littlemissmartypants]

05 July 2026
ByCarly Cassella

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Next time you're making yourself a berry smoothie, you might want to hold off on the banana.

Sure, it's full of potassium and makes a drink deliciously thick and creamy, but it could actually be impacting the nutritional benefit of your fruity drink.

According to research from the University of California, Davis (UCD), there's something in bananas that might overpower the antioxidants in berries.

The antioxidants in this case are called flavonols.
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https://www.sciencealert.com/you-might-want-to-leave-this-fruit-out-of-your-next-smoothie-experiments-suggest

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[3catwoman3]

1. No hardship for me - I can't stand bananas.

[bamagal62]

2. I can only eat them green.

[littlemissmartypants]

4. I'd die. They make my stomach painfully churn.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. They hate me. So the feeling is mutual for me.

I bought one the other day because... potassium, I got some OJ instead, and it went to compost.