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What types of nutrients are in bananas and apples?
Question Date: 2012-09-03
Answer 1:

You can search the USDA nutritional database to find out about the common vitamins, minerals, and nutrients in apples and bananas. Here's the website, once inside it, click on Fruits:

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We don't know exactly what our bodies use in apples, bananas, and other foods. Scientists keep finding new molecules in foods that are useful for our bodies.


Answer 2:

Bananas are rich in potassium, and apples have vitamins in the skin, but not so much in the flesh. I don't believe either fruit is particularly loaded with vitamins or minerals, although they're both on the order of a hundred kilocalories each.



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