Have you eaten any bananas or any other soft fruit one or few days before discovering cotton balls?

Have you eaten any bananas or any other soft fruit one or few days before discovering cotton balls?

When we eat bananas or other soft fruit, we tend to chew it very few times before swallowing it.

Most other foods we chew longer, so it is not as easy to recognize it in the stool.


"Cotton balls" (with or without "legs") is how banana pieces look like after bing exposed to digestive juices.

Banana fibers are white. In contact with bile, fibers turn dark, creating those classic "spider legs", as seen on some of the photos.


The easiest way to prove it is banana, is if you just live on bananas for 24 or 48 hours, and you inspect your stool.



People who sell " parasite cleanse" products, keep this myth alive, as it helps sale.

The reality is, it is not a parasite, it is just common food. Millions of people consume bananas.

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