Nana Bites (banana, peanut butter & chocolate)

This recipe was created during an "on set" catering for Artdeko Cosmetics.

INGREDIENTS:
2 tbsp peanut butter
2-3 bananas
¼ Chocolate bar
Toothpicks

Optional:
Cocoa nibs
Freeze-dried bananas from Koro drugstore

PREPARATION
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1. Melt the chocolate.
2. In the meantime, cut the bananas into slices.
3. Spread a slice with some peanut butter, place another banana slice on top and fix it with a toothpick.
4. As soon as peanut butter or bananas are used up, spread the chocolate over the banana skewers and garnish as desired with cocoa nibs and crumbled, freeze-dried bananas.
5. Keep in the refrigerator until serving.

HEALTH BENEFITS
The banana is full of minerals such as magnesium and potassium (great for muscle and nerve function, energy production and electrolyte balance). They are also a super athlete snack, as the consumption of these substances is particularly high during physical exertion.  The trace elements phosphorus, calcium, iron and zinc are also found in bananas. 100 grams of banana already cover 12 percent of the daily requirement of vitamin C. Bananas also contain vitamin A, vitamin K and various vitamins of the B group - especially vitamin B6.
SUSTAINABILITY:
In Germany, the banana comes directly after the apple in terms of consumption, i.e. each German consumes an average of 100 individual bananas per year. This makes Germany particularly important as a customer in the manufacturing countries (China and India are at the top of the list here). Since the supply chain of the banana is very non-transparent it is difficult to control social conditions and the cultivation. Smallholders usually cannot keep up with the big plantation farmers. The cultivation is mostly monoculture and requires a large consumption of pesticides, which are distributed by air.