I was eating the banana of my breakfast just now, and on licking a bit of mushed banana tip from my fingers I tasted that familiar flattening taste one experiences when eating an unripe banana. Instantaneously my mind offered me the commentary it must be the potassium.
just like that. but that whole mind/voice this is a separate issue.
as is the accuracy of that conclusion, (which i in no way mean to endorse despite the fact that it was my own mind that suggested it to me).
what this here is about is how strange it is that bananas are rich in potassium. not bananas specifically, or potassium specifically - but the whole this fruit/vegetable/other is rich in this valuable compound thing. not on a social/trend level, but on a biological level. is it a biproduct of growing in potassium overrich soil? does their dna produce enzymes that bind with potassium? what is it about bananas that causes them to be 'potassium rich'?
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