that bananas are a natural sleep aid.
Interestingly, there is some preliminary research.
A small 2024 clinical study examined 21 adults with primary insomnia who were assigned to banana, milk, or control groups. After six weeks, subjective sleep-quality scores improved in the banana and milk groups.
But there’s an important limitation:
The study was extremely small — the banana group contained only seven people.
Some objective sleep measures also did not show significant differences between groups. Therefore, this study is interesting, but it isn’t enough to conclude that eating bananas before
