Yes.

Contraindications for eating persimmons:

1. Persimmons are not suitable for everyone

Persimmons are cold in nature, causing spleen and stomach deficiency, diarrhea and loose stools, and frailty. People who are recovering from illness, have qi deficiency after childbirth, or are suffering from exogenous wind and cold should eat less or not at all. In addition, persimmons contain high sugar content, which will affect the treatment of diabetes and chronic gastric diseases. The tannins in persimmons can hinder the absorption of iron in food, which is detrimental to the treatment of patients with iron deficiency anemia. Therefore, it is best for these patients not to eat persimmons.

2. Do not eat persimmons on an empty stomach

Persimmons contain more tannic acid and pectin. On an empty stomach, they will form insoluble precipitates of varying sizes under the action of gastric acid. If these sediments cannot reach the small intestine through the pylorus, they will remain in the stomach and form gastric persimmon stones. If gastric persimmon stones cannot be expelled naturally, it will cause digestive tract obstruction and symptoms such as severe pain in the upper abdomen, vomiting, and even vomiting of blood.

3. It is best not to eat persimmon skin

Most of the tannic acid in persimmons is concentrated in the skin. When removing astringency from persimmons, it is impossible to remove all the tannic acid. However, if persimmon is eaten with the skin, it is more likely to form stomach stones.

4. Don’t eat too many persimmons

First of all, the large amount of tannic acid contained in persimmons can form with calcium, zinc, magnesium, iron and other minerals in food and cannot be absorbed by the body. Eating too many persimmons can easily lead to mineral deficiencies; secondly, persimmons can also make people feel full, which not only affects appetite but also reduces meal intake, which can easily lead to nutritional deficiencies and be harmful to health. It is generally believed that if you are not fasting, it is appropriate to eat no more than 200 grams of persimmons each time.

Extended information:

Benefits of eating persimmons:

Persimmons have high nutritional value. Persimmons are rich in sucrose, glucose, fructose, protein, carotene, vitamin C, citrulline, iodine, calcium, phosphorus, and iron. The vitamins and sugar content are about 1 to 2 times higher than those of ordinary fruits. Except for the zinc and copper content, other ingredients are higher than those of apples. Therefore, persimmons enjoy the reputation of "the holy fruit among fruits".

There is also a folk saying: "Eating persimmons in autumn will prevent a runny nose." This means that if you eat some large persimmons with thin skin, thick flesh and sweet taste during this season, your nose will not runny in winter.

The Five Elements Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that autumn corresponds to the lungs among the five internal organs. The lungs open to the nose. If the lungs are affected by evil, people will have symptoms such as sneezing and runny nose. Persimmons are sweet in taste and cold in nature. They can clear away heat in the lungs and moisturize the dryness of the lungs. They have a certain preventive and protective effect against dryness and damage to the lungs. Therefore, if you eat persimmons during frost, you will not have a runny nose. There is insufficient internal vaginal fluid, so eating some persimmons can also relieve the cracked lips.

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