Banana Smoothies – Without Gaining Weight

It’s the additives like sugar, cream, and extra flavoring in your shake that help you gain weight.

Many people believe that eating banana and milk together helps to gain weight. Let’s find out how true it is.

For a basic banana smoothie, you need a banana and a glass of low-fat milk. A banana by itself has negligible fat. Milk is a dairy product, and a recent study linked dairy consumption to reduced abdominal fat storage. So we know that fat is not linked here.

Similarly, both banana and milk have a low-medium Glycolic Index (healthy carbohydrates). Therefore, it is not the carbohydrate content that makes you gain weight.

Instead, it provides you with protein, fiber, calcium, vitamins, and minerals.

Therefore, there is actually nothing in this combination that will help you gain weight.

Are you worried about calories now?

You should know that a banana has around 100 calories while a glass of low-fat milk has around 60-80 calories. That means the total calories in this concoction are much lower than a bag of chips (about 600 calories). So what makes you gain those extra pounds with regular consumption of the drink? It’s all those additives you add to the banana smoothie to make it taste better: sugar, ice cream, sweet syrup (basically sugar and water), and all the extra flavorings that are loaded with calories.

Many people gain weight from consuming banana shake because they add it to their existing diets and don’t make the necessary replacements. So instead of replacing what they were consuming before, they just start having banana shakes along with it.