Short answer is YES!… but not all bananas are Paleo…
This is one of the most common mistakes people make when on a Paleo diet, which is to ignore the quality of food they eat…
Many people like to think that a Paleo diet is all about eating like a caveman… whatever you can hunt and gather is good…
Turns out that bananas are something you can simply gather…
… but there’s an important distinction to be made when it comes to the type of bananas our ancestors ate…
This is the biggest lesson the Paleo Diet is trying to teach people…
Fruit in general is considered food that’s allowed on the Paleo diet… what many fail to point out is that the fruit you eat must be fertile…
How do you know if the fruit is fertile?
It needs to have seeds…
Did you know that bananas are supposed to have seeds?
It’s crazy to think that there is such a thing as a seeded banana because you can’t hardly find them anywhere…
The opposite was true for our ancestors… all the fruit they ate was seeded… the idea of having seedless fruit was a foreign concept until recently…
This is the whole idea behind a Paleo Diet… eating like our ancestors means seeking out the foods they actually ate… It’s not just about eating fruit, but eating the type of fruit they ate which was all fertile fruit…
Seeded bananas are known as wild bananas or heirloom bananas…
What’s the difference between Non-Paleo Bananas and Paleo Bananas?
Non-Paleo bananas is what you see at grocery stores… These are commercially grown bananas, which are grown as monocultures…
Mono-culture, meaning one single culture… which means they are grown isolated from other fruits or plants which reduces the biodiversity of soil probiotics… monocultures create poor soil health, which is why they have to use pesticides to protect fruit from pests and disease…
…. but that’s not the worst part about these commercially grown bananas…
Commercially grown bananas are seedless because they are grown using asexual reproduction (using the root, stem or leaf of the parent plant) which makes them genetically identical…
Nature doesn’t work this way…
You don’t go out and see people who are genetically identical… not even twins… you don’t grow a human from a rib… well, maybe Eve being the exception…
You grow humans from sperm, which is human seed…
Paleo bananas are grown from a seed… seeds from seeded bananas are used to grow bananas using sexual reproduction by pollinating the flower… (you know the bee and flower story about how reproduction works)…
When bananas are grown nature’s way, it creates genetic diversity… the resulting bananas are genetically similar to its parent, but not an identical clone…
This is the difference between wild seeded bananas (Paleo bananas), and seedless bananas…
Seedless means that it’s infertile…
Seeded means that it’s fertile…
Fertile means that it can produce seed…
Your body is meant to be fertile… it is meant to produce seed…
To produce seed you need to produce hormones…
Hormone production is energy production…
This is why many people end up feeling tired all the time as they grow older… they become infertile…
Why?
… because they eat infertile food…
If you get this concept, then you are ahead of 80% of people who are out there trying to figure out how to go Paleo…
If you don’t eat fertile food, are you even Paleo?
When you start to become infertile and can’t produce energy, you also start to lose the ability to burn fat as a source of fuel… you start gaining weight…
This is why the Paleo diet works so well to get more energy and lose weight… but only if you understand the difference between real food and fake food… fertile food, and infertile food… food that gives you energy VS food that makes you fat…
