New Study Says 'No To Bananas & Berries Together' | Is It True?

A bunch of people sent me this study showing that combining bananas and berries together in a smoothie might not be the best combination if you want to maximize your health.

In this video I go over the study and talk about if you should still have bananas & berry smoothies.

Let me know your thoughts below! Are you going to keep having banana and berries together?

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[jonstephenson]

The study that I conducted this morning revealed that bananas and berries together made me feel awesome. I’ve repeated the study, and the results were the same 😊

[jackiefox]

I put a frozen banana in my smoothie along with berries, beets, kale, spinach, chocolate protein powder, cocoa, flax meal and unsweetened plant based milk. This makes enough for about 3 to 4 days. It’s filing, chocolatey, and sometimes I can’t finish 1 serving at breakfast, so I have the rest for dessert after dinner. So I basically follow you, Dr. Greger, The Esselstyn’s, Dr. Fuhrman, Chef AJ, et al. As a 70 year old woman, I feel healthier now than I did 10 years ago. I’ve been plant based for almost 6 years now. (Wished I’d started earlier, but better late than never)! Thanks for your videos, they are quite informative! 🇨🇦

[tlopez]

Thank you so much for breaking this study down, for highlighting the good & encouraging people to NOT get caught up in the weeds. Healthy habits like consuming a WFPB diet have so much good science behind them, there's really no debate. Keep up the awesome videos, love both you & Crystal!!! <3 <3

[priscillavelazquezs]

The more stuff I watch and read, the more I realize I will drive myself crazy with all things. One thing I’ve always heard since I was a kid, is only eat melons alone. Lately it’s really big to put lemon in your grains to soak. Meanwhile the water we shower with is probably hurting us a bunch, Lord help us all!! lol

[janiah]

I love bananas and blueberries smoothies. And I will continue to have them.

[cindybriden]

Oh my gosh!! Your reaction in the video was my reaction I had when downing my banana smoothie and I came across the exact same article. Anyway, I am glad you covered it. Thank you!!

[kimw]

It's so helpful/critical to point out the study design and what populations were and were not included. Thank you!

[TenzinJordyn]

I’ve had a banana and wild blueberry smoothie every day since February. It’s helped significantly with my chronic illnesses. No one could tell me nothing bad about the combo except my body and she’s cheering me on at this point so…

[EricLedford]

Yeah these sort of things can easily create eating disorders and food anxiety. Thanks for making the video!

[ivanmohnke]

I’ve just read the study, albeit briefly. There are certain factors that stood out to me in which I can critique: first, the sample size was small, n=8, and a p-value test would be inappropriate to determine significance. The other thing about a small sample size is that outcomes occur by chance.
My second critique would be that it was a crossover study, and each participant took 3 different smoothies; (1) banana + almond milk smoothie, (2) berries + almond milk smoothie, (3) dairy milk + capsule. Of the 3 smoothies, nothing was said about calorie, fat carbs protein, and other differing nutrients from the 3 smoothies which could easily act as confounders and thus causing a difference in the polyphenol absorption.

[kathy.]

I would like to hear what Dr. Gregor thinks about this study.

[cRawley]

I hoped you'd make a vid on this! I'm not changing my smoothies either 💪

[fabian]

5:47 I also had a phase where I felt completely lost in the nutrition-jungle and literally overanalized every single food and researched everything down the rabbit hole.
And in the end I always felt even more confused and frustrated.

It was like living hell

[jorgevr]

I really liked your take on that study. The positivity and constructive criticism. Another good one! Thank you for sharing it and keep up the good work.

[mamabigbaba]

I agree with you. 💯
No need to change. But your explanations were very informative.

[Lexington]

Interesting! Thanks for reviewing all the details that are so easily overlooked, such as who paid for it, who participate etc.

[alexaconner]

I’ve never clicked on anything faster wtf 😅

[ScrapKing]

I agree with you that most people shouldn’t stress about this. But I *usually* eat bananas and berries together, and I like strategizing things like this in my life. So I think I will make a change, and will try to avoid combining them. Same as I make a point of combining turmeric and black pepper, and combining flax and something with vitamin C. I can add this to the list of things I make sure to pair up (or not pair up).

[dj.h]

This study made me think of rewatching the series Century of The Self which is on youtube on adam curtis’ channel. It’s in part about the history of public relations and how the general public get duped, conditioned or convinced of things. I’m not really saying this study is faked or manipulated, just that there really are teams of people employed to confuse us the general public, in subtle ways, as doubt and confusion demotivates people so that they stick with the ‘popular view’. And that popular view is the one that’s we’ve been conditioned into! Sorry if that’s a bit deep, but the alarm bells in this study made me think of it. And by the way two of the people I definitely 100% trust are on this channel, thanks D&C 😊😊

[paiviv.]

Thank you for explaining this study. I won't stop having my banana and berry smoothies, but I will try to mix things up a bit more. Maybe have some chia pudding with berries sometimes and maybe sometimes not have berries in smoothies where I use bananas. Berries are really expensive in Finland and it would be nice to get the most out of them. But as you mentioned, it was a small study etc. so not too concerned about this. Just something that is good to know and sometimes seperate those if wanting every bit of nutrition from the berries.