I hate the fact that I'm using a question on this... I have a hiatal hernia, which makes me really prone to acid reflux. My mom swears up and down that I should never ever ever eat bananas on an empty stomach as it's really bad for people with acid reflux. Everything I've ever read suggests that bananas are either neutral or good when it comes to acid reflux. My mom argues that the key is eating them on an empty stomach versus eating something first *then* eating bananas. Her "source" is that she used to have an ulcer, and that not eating bananas helped. So who's bananas? Can anyone point to relatively reliable sources as to who might be (more) right?
posted on Mar 5, 2008 - 22 answers