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Poll: Do you eat banana peels?

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I don't think I've heard of anyone eating them before.

Banana peels contain significant amounts of norepinephrine and dopamine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norepinephrine#Nutritional_sour...

You can eat banana peels, but beware of pesticides because the producers assume you're going to throw the peel away. I'd go for organic or once you grow yourself.

Once I read in a book, "Everything you wanted to know about drugs and were afraid to ask", that some people smoke dried banana peels. The books tells you that you have to dry them in the oven, and it's not guaranteed that you are going to get high by smoking it. But if you have the right company, music and are in the mood, you might even get high.

Awesome. I've never read that book, but I loved the Dead Milkmen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Milkmen) when I was a kid. One of their songs talked about smoking banana peels and that was enough for, um, some of my friends.

Dried in the oven and... no effect. Glad there was some remote possibility it could have been more interesting. I've always wondered if that was just a joke on their fans or not!

I might be wrong about the title, as it has been more than 20 years now, but I remember pretty well the answer in the book. Never tried, though.

No. Aren't them radioactive? (in a small amount)

I have 5 weeks now eating mostly the inside of the peels and I'm fine.

Bananas are radioactive (a little bit) because of the high potassium content. Potassium is a little radioactive.

isn't this too off topic for hacker news?

Hacking your diet/health/body is on topic.

He isn't giving any info or asking anything about hacking diets, he's only asking if we eat banana peels. With that criteria any question in the universe could be on topic. "Do you watch humor movies?" --> Is about hacking your emotions with humor...

No but I know several people who eat orange skins.

No, but I eat apple cores.

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