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

I wonder if dietry dopamin does cross th Blood Brain Barrier to the brain?

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...

Banana skins are pretty interesting things.Rub the skin on a wart and it will get rid of it quicker than anything the doc gives you.

I wonder if you can smoke them?

Yeah, but it is kind of like tequila - when you finish the bunch you have to eat the tarantula.

you can of course make banana cake, or perhaps a sweet desert wine, and there is a green banana variety called plantain grown and eaten in the caribbean and in south east asia, skins are also used to make a spicy savoury dish, very nice. skins are also good as a deterrent on the way to patent offices for those wishing to tie up all creative use as with mucuna and basmati rice....
hurry we might be able to synthesize a mellow medicinal compound faster than it takes to get a treatment to market.......

or we could try drying and smoking the skins........

sorry steve, you got there first!

Rick and Lindy..Sometimes you just have to think outside of the box

And how about a banana colada to beat this 100 degree Texas heat?

And if there is an issue with passing the blood brain barrier- there is snuff and snorting and smoking. Ive heard good things about nasally administered drugs- now I'm going to go dig out that banana peel I just threw into the garbage.