Can I eat bananas while pregnant?
Doola Scan's answer in the United StatesBananas aren't on the pregnancy food lists of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or Ireland, so Doola Scan shows No known issues for ripe bananas, raw green bananas, plantain and dried banana. No rule names them, so there are no extra steps on this page. Health NZ uses a banana in its own example of the extra food needed each day after week 12: a wholegrain peanut butter sandwich and a banana. The NHS counts fruit towards the 5 portions of fruit and vegetables it asks for each day in pregnancy.
Checked against Doola Scan's pregnancy rules · UpdatedRipe bananas, eaten fresh or in smoothies and porridge
No known issuesIn all six countriesRaw green banana and plantain, cooked as a vegetable
No known issuesIn all six countriesDried banana
No known issuesIn all six countries
Banana while pregnant: what each country says.
Each country's own pregnancy guidance on banana, with a link to it. Doola Scan uses your country's first.
No known issuesNone of the six countries' pregnancy guidance names banana.
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Download app nowDoola shows what official guidance says; it never diagnoses. No known issues means none of these countries' pregnancy guidance names it, not a promise that a food is safe.