Bananas are extremely beneficial fruits that are rich in needed nutrients. Their sweet flavor blends well with various meals and dishes, from pastry to desserts and are great even as a baby mush. Bananas are also fantastic snacks, and as they are highly versatile food, it’s no surprise that they can be used for various tasks around the house, even after you eat them.

If you’re curious as to how to use their peels in various ways in your household, this article will be of great help, for it provides some of the most interesting and unusual uses of banana peels.

Teeth Whitening

You can choose whether you would use a banana peel or you would rather spend a fortune on professional whitening strips. The combination of plaque-busting, astringent salicylic acid and gently bleaching citric acid in the peels will effectively lighten surface stains on teeth without wearing down the enamel. Simply rub the inner white side of a peel against your freshly brushed teeth for about 2 minutes on a daily basis.

Wart Remedy

Bananas can be as effective as white vinegar and creams to dry out unsightly warts. It is believed that this plant’s high potassium content removes this skin problem in a painless way. You can rub the inside of the banana peel against your skin or you can mash up a banana and apply all over the affected area.

Keep Grilled Chicken Juicy

Banana peels will be of great help if you have trouble grilling skinless chicken breasts as well. Skinless chicken breasts are so lean that they dry out fast on the grill before you can flip them. Banana peels can create a barrier that acts like a skin, helping the meat retain its natural juices. You should simply place a banana peel on top of each breast while cooking.

Shoe Or Silverware Shiner

In order to return your sling- backs to their great condition, except for a few scuffs on the toes, remove the stringy material from the inside, then rub the soft inside of the skin all over your shoes.

Then simply buff it up with a soft cloth or paper towel. This will leave your shoes looking brand-new, since the peel’s potassium is a key ingredient in leather polish, and it will be absorbed into the leather. Some people say that this also works on leather as well, and the same technique can be used for silverware. However, just to be on the safe side, test in on a small area of the leather.

Natural Fruit-Fly Trap

You can make a simple trap for those pesky little flies buzzing around your kitchen. Take a large yogurt container, a banana peel, a hammer, and a small nail. Poke holes in the lid of the yogurt container using the nail and hammer. Place the banana peel inside, snap on the lid, and leave it where the flies tend to gather.

The sweet smell of banana will attract the fruit flies, leading them to crawl inside, but they won’t be able to fly back out of the holes. The next day or when most of the flies have been caught, you can dispose of the trap.

Sources:
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