A food-based public service announcement:
Aug. 4th, 2022 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynBananas are not supposed to make your mouth tingle or feel burny when you eat them.
Some foods, yes. Kiwifruit, for example. They contain a great deal of protease compounds that break down proteins on contact; kiwifruit are trying to digest you before you can digest them. That more or less happens across the board. But bananas are not on this list. If you have a tingly or burny sensation in your mouth upon eating bananas, you are either allergic to bananas or you are allergic to ragweed pollen and are experiencing a cross-reactive case of oral allergy syndrome.
Other than that, bananas do not or at least should not burn on contact with your flesh.
This message brought to you by a friend of mine, to whom I was telling the story of the guy on Not Always Friendly who told his friends he loved the tingly burning sensation of eating bananas and got stared at and told he was allergic... my friend proceeded to genuinely blink and say "wait, you mean bananas aren't supposed to do that?" And mention that not only did he get that sensation when eating raw bananas but that he got a tingly burny sensation in his mouth/oesophagus/stomach when eating his homemade banana muffins.
Some foods, yes. Kiwifruit, for example. They contain a great deal of protease compounds that break down proteins on contact; kiwifruit are trying to digest you before you can digest them. That more or less happens across the board. But bananas are not on this list. If you have a tingly or burny sensation in your mouth upon eating bananas, you are either allergic to bananas or you are allergic to ragweed pollen and are experiencing a cross-reactive case of oral allergy syndrome.
Other than that, bananas do not or at least should not burn on contact with your flesh.
This message brought to you by a friend of mine, to whom I was telling the story of the guy on Not Always Friendly who told his friends he loved the tingly burning sensation of eating bananas and got stared at and told he was allergic... my friend proceeded to genuinely blink and say "wait, you mean bananas aren't supposed to do that?" And mention that not only did he get that sensation when eating raw bananas but that he got a tingly burny sensation in his mouth/oesophagus/stomach when eating his homemade banana muffins.
