Going Bananas!

[Loafinabout]

just read here that this fruit is high in biotin. It’s the only fruit in its natural state I enjoy. I eat 2 per day every day and have done all my life. Am I getting a level of biotin which means I should leave off them before a test?

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Loafinabout

I hadn't heard this (and I have one banana most days) so Iooked it up and quicky found that it's a very small amount

One small banana (105 grams) also provides approximately 0.2 mcg of biotin, or 1% of the DV

So I don't think there's any need to worry

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to SeasideSusie]

I have seen it expressly stated that dietary biotin intake will never be a problem for lab tests.

It is only high to very high to extremely high that affect tests. And it was due to the use of such doses, often in trials, that the issue with labs was identified.

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to helvella]

Yes, 5-10mg (and I assume that to be suppemental) seems to be the sort of dose where it's recommended to leave off for a week.

[Loafinabout in reply to helvella]

Thanks helvella it was in a post - maybe in AF forum which I can’t now find and I thought I had not heard that before so asked the question of ‘known experts’ 🤔

[Loafinabout in reply to SeasideSusie]

Great! I read it in a post earlier today but can’t remember which one - it came across as very ‘authoritative’ 🤓

[Brightness14]

I am also going Bananas about them too. My father was a greengrocer and wholesaler and imported them green and then ripened them too. Sometimes beetles and the occasional spider would appear. I eat one every day, also nuts.