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Old 07-03-2011, 02:03 PM
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Default Banana skins have high levels of dopamine

Has anyone looked into banana skins as a source of dopamine?

“Banana contained dopamine at high levels in both the peel and pulp. Dopamine levels ranged from 80−560 mg per 100 g in peel and 2.5−10 mg in pulp, even in ripened bananas ready to eat.”

See

"High Content of Dopamine, a Strong Antioxidant, in Cavendish Banana"
Kazuki Kanazawa* and Hiroyuki Sakakibara
Laboratory of Food and Nutritional Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe University, Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
J. Agric. Food Chem., 2000, 48 (3), pp 844–848

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf9909860

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