And worth knowing for hard times. It also gives a clue to the urban legend of getting high off them.
For comparison, mucuna runs about 7% or 7 g per 100. If these numbers hold up we are looking at a half gram or so for the best banana. 560 mg is respectable and I bet a Junior Birdman could quickly figure out an automated extraction scheme. If only we knew a chemist or two...
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Originally Posted by johnt
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
John |