Experts pointed out that the correct time to eat fruit is 1 hour before meals and about 2 hours after meals (except persimmons). First of all, many of the ingredients in the fruit are water-soluble, eat before meals is conducive to the absorption of essential nutrients. Secondly, fruits are low-calorie foods, with an average calorie content of only 1/4 of the equivalent weight of pasta, and about 1/10 of the equivalent weight of pork and other meats. eating low-calorie foods first makes it easier to grasp the total calorie intake of a meal. Thirdly, many fruits are easy to be oxidized and spoiled, eating fruits first can shorten the time it stays in the stomach and reduce the degree of oxidation and spoilage, which may cause adverse effects on the body.
Also, we should be careful not to eat fruit before going to bed at night, or the full stomach and intestines will make your sleep suffer. Don't ever think that eating fruit is a trivial matter; eliminate these misconceptions to develop habits that are truly beneficial to your health.
One hour before meals, and one hour after meals for the average person
In addition, bananas are rich in sugar and fiber substances, which are conducive to digestion and laxatives and other effects. But eating bananas on an empty stomach is not conducive to health, because when fasting, there is almost no food available for digestion in the stomach and intestines, at this time, if you eat bananas, will accelerate the movement of the stomach and intestines, promote blood circulation, increase the heart load, easy to lead to myocardial infarction. Experts remind, do not eat bananas on an empty stomach, generally should choose to eat bananas after meals or not hungry state is safer.
People usually think that eating fruit after a meal is the best, a professor in Taiwan has put forward new insights, emphasizing that an hour before the meal to eat fruit is the most beneficial. The reason is: fruit is a raw food, eat raw food and then into the cooked food, the body will not produce white blood cell increase and other reactions, is conducive to the protection of the body's immune system, thereby enhancing the ability to prevent disease and anti-cancer. Eating fruit after meals has no such protective effect. In addition, eat fruit after eating a full meal, containing fructose can not enter the intestinal tract in a timely manner, so that the fermentation in the stomach, producing organic acids, causing bloating and diarrhea, so you need to wait an hour after the meal and then eat fruit.
Diabetics eat between meals or before going to bed
1.premise: under the premise of ideal diabetes control, that is, the requirement of fasting blood sugar < 8.0mmol / L, 2 hours after the meal blood sugar < 10.0mmol / L, blood sugar without large fluctuations, you can try to eat fruit; when blood sugar control is not ideal, it is recommended that the fruit is not eaten temporarily, and you can put the The first thing you need to do is to eat vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers as fruits.
2. The best time to eat fruit: fruit is generally used as a meal, that is to say, between meals or eat before bedtime. The best time to eat fruit is between 3 and 4 p.m., and you should be active after eating. It's worth noting that you don't need to inject insulin or take oral hypoglycemic medication to have a meal.
3. The calories from fruits should be included in the total daily calorie intake, and each portion of fruits listed below is equivalent to the calories provided by half a tael of grains: watermelon 1 catty, strawberries 6 tael, pears, peaches, apples, tangerines, oranges, kiwis 4 tael. The fruit eaten every day should not be more than a portion, and should be reduced by half a couple of staple food.
4. Types: different kinds of fruits contain different amounts of sugar, watermelon, apples, pears, oranges, kiwi sugar content is low; bananas, jujubes, lychee, red fruit sugar content is high; Virgin fruit (some people call it a small tomato), although similar to the shape of a tomato, but the sugar content is higher, the patients should try to choose lower sugar content of fruits, but less to eat higher sugar content of fruits.
5. Pay attention to blood glucose monitoring: due to the differences in the human body, everyone may have their own suitable or unsuitable fruit, the measure of the indicator is blood glucose. If you can eat fruit before and after eating 2 hours to measure blood glucose, to understand their own fitness to eat a certain kind of fruit, eating is not too much help.
In fact, eating fruit in the morning is best. In the morning fruit is "gold", midday fruit is "silver", to the evening is "copper". So eating fruit in the morning is the best~