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(Reporter Yang Xiaolu from People's Daily Health Client) In the recent Paris Olympics, the athletes' "eating bananas" behavior has attracted the attention and heated discussion of netizens. The reporter of People's Daily Health Client noticed that in the men's gymnastics competition, gymnastsXiao Ruoteng、Zou JingyuanI ate bananas during the break; in the women's singles final,Chen MengI also took a banana during the break;Road CyclingIn the men's road race final, some athletes even carried bananas on their backs.

Why do athletes prefer bananas? On August 10, Yang Haixia, a professor at the College of Food Science and Nutrition Engineering of China Agricultural University, told a reporter from the People's Daily Health Client that bananas contain 70%-80% water and 20% carbon water, and the calories obtained from eating bananas are similar to those from rice. Moreover, bananas are easier to digest and the nutrients can be converted into energy more quickly, so eating bananas can quickly replenish energy for athletes. In addition, athletes will sweat a lot when participating in high-intensity exercise, losing electrolytes such as potassium and sodium, and bananas are rich in potassium, which can help athletes replenish electrolytes.

Yang Haixia also said that athletes' good performance on the field is inseparable from their usual hard work. Eating a banana does not mean they can "perform beyond their normal level", but bananas are indeed an ideal food to help athletes obtain energy and electrolytes. "For ordinary people, if we usually participate in some sports that consume a lot of energy and sweat a lot, we can indeed replenish energy by eating bananas."

But Yang Haixia also reminded that this way of replenishing energy is not suitable for everyone. "For patients with special diseases, such as diabetes and kidney disease, due to metabolic dysfunction, it is not suitable to replenish energy by eating a lot of bananas."