Bananas by Virginia Jenkins

Author:Virginia Jenkins [Jenkins, Virginia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58834-412-0
Publisher: Smithsonian
Published: 2014-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

The reader submitting this “cure” noted that his “great-grandfather, Dr. J. B. Frymire, a graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1867, started using the banana-peel treatment in the 1890s. “Thousands have written to me to say it works.” A second column with letters supporting and deriding the “cure” appeared several months later.89

A musician friend confided that she eats a banana before each concert to take the edge off her stage fright. The nutritional and medicinal claims for the banana have shifted over the years, but the perceived connection between the banana and nutrition or disease has remained strong and the popularity of the banana has continued to increase. Advertising departments have taken full advantage of the health-benefit claims for bananas since the early years of the twentieth century and will no doubt continue to do so far into the twenty-first.

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