Bananas

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Ingredients · 11

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Common questions

Is Bananas healthy?

Bananas scores 5/100 on Tallow — our avoid band. That number comes from what is on the label: the ingredients, how processed it is, and what it is packaged in. It is not a verdict on your diet — Tallow does not weigh calories, portion size or how often you eat it, so a high score means the ingredients are clean, not that the food is unlimited.

What is in Bananas?

Bananas lists 11 ingredients, starting with Fibre E460, Amino Acids, Fatty Acids, Phytosterols and E300. Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight, so the first few make up most of what you are eating.

Does Bananas contain seed oils?

No. Nothing in Bananas’s ingredient list matches a seed oil — canola, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, rice bran or peanut oil, or an unspecified "vegetable oil".

How processed is Bananas?

Bananas is NOVA group 4: ultra-processed. That is the top of the scale and the classification the score penalises most heavily.

How does Bananas compare to other fruits & vegetables?

At 5/100 Bananas scores worse than most fruits & vegetables we have scored. A higher-scoring option in fruits & vegetables is Driscoll's Organic Strawberries at 100/100.

Is Bananas organic?

Bananas is not certified organic in our data.

Full methodology: how we score products.