A banana with pumpkin seeds.
- Ready in1 minute
- Serves1
Ingredients
- 1 banana
- 20 g pumpkin seeds
Method
- Peel the banana.
- Eat with the pumpkin seeds, or slice the banana and scatter the seeds over.
What this plate gives you
Twenty grams of pumpkin seeds is about 115 calories, 10 g of fat and 6 g of protein, which is nearly all the protein and fat here; the banana is the 29 g of carbohydrate. At 217 calories it is 11 percent of a 2,000-calorie day. The seeds are the reason this is not just a banana: they take the snack from 1 g of protein to 7.
Swaps
- Sunflower seeds: about the same numbers.
- Almonds: about the same calories, a little less protein.
- Half the seeds: 60 calories fewer.
Keeping it
Seeds keep for months in a sealed jar; a banana, until it is brown.
