Dark chocolate is actually an excellent source of potassium.
I can’t eat bananas. I’ve had to have a couple of tests called t.o.e. Where essentially they put a probe down your throat to be able to look at your heart from the other side. A bit like an endoscopy but the probe is about 3 times the size.
To do it they give you a throat numbing spray which tastes like banana. The spray makes you feel as if you can’t breathe because it numbs the back of your throat. Once the throat is numb you’re given sedation so they can carry on the test.
I had one of these 2.5 years ago and I felt like I couldn’t breathe. My health was in a much worse state then, but my heart rate shot up and my blood pressure shot down, and the upshot was that I ended up in ICU and spent 6 weeks in total in hospital.
I was just unlucky. But the upshot is that even the word banana has a physical affect on me because it makes me think back to that spray.
I’ve had another t.o.e. Since then, and and this time I was sedated before they put the spray in. They’re not meant to because they want to be sure your throat is actually numb, but because of my previous experience an anaesthetist agreed to it. In future if I have to have one again I will sign whatever it is I have to sign to be able to have sedation first.