Despite the fact that a lot of fruits have just hit the market in early summer, there are already a lot of people eating problems. Such as eating too many apricots and fire, dizziness, stomach pain, nosebleeds and other symptoms and come to the doctor. In fact, eat "pomegranate" will not catch fire. Although summer is the peak season to eat fruit, and fruit rich in vitamins, water and minerals, very beneficial to human health. However, from the nutritional point of view of Chinese medicine, fruit is divided into cold, hot, if their bodies are not suitable for eating cold or hot fruits, improper consumption or eat too much, will cause serious negative impact on the body.
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How exactly does fruit cold and hot, and how should people choose? To this end, the reporter visited the Beijing Hospital Nutrition Department Li Changping doctor.
Cold fruits to solve the dry heat
According to Dr. Li, summer fruits are mostly cold, such as pears, apples and various melons. Generally speaking, people with solid heat constitution have vigorous metabolism in summer, sympathetic nerves are dominant, sweating, often red face, dry mouth, easy to be irritable, easy to be constipated, and especially like to eat cold things in summer. Therefore, the hot constitution people can eat more cold fruits appropriately.
But, cold fruits can not eat more, or instead of harmful to the body. For example, apples taste sweet, with antidiarrheal, laxative, help digestion, often eat can make the skin white. But because of the rich sugar and potassium, eat too much will be detrimental to the heart, kidney health, such as coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, nephritis and diabetes patients can not eat, and the lack of gas, mental fatigue can be done as a nourishing fruit to eat a little more.
And like pear, citrus, pomelo and other fruits, has a cough, phlegm, lungs, digestive role, but more to eat but easy to cause gastrointestinal disorders, but also can lead to toothache, hemorrhoids, and even cause skin macular. Therefore, there are stomach problems, stomach cold people had better eat less.
Dr. Li especially emphasized that people with qi deficiency and spleen deficiency should be especially cautious when choosing watermelon, melon, mango, pear and banana, which are cold fruits, and it is best not to eat them. Qi deficiency, generally refers to the lack of central qi, weak strength of people or children, these people are generally pale, thin, can not eat; and spleen deficiency, is that the digestive system is poor, slow intestinal peristalsis. Therefore, the more you eat cold fruits, the more it will reduce intestinal peristalsis, making the muscles weak, and eating more will lead to bloating due to indigestion. Therefore, the elderly and children with poor intestinal and gastrointestinal function, not very suitable for eating cold fruits, if you really want to eat, you can eat after lunch, before dinner, eat a little less, not too much.
Summer cold fruits: melon, watermelon, pears, bananas, kiwi fruit, mango, persimmons, water chestnuts, melon, pomelo and so on.
Suitable for people: real hot body
Warm fruits to make up for the cold
While the summer cold fruits are more, but in many fruits, like lychee, cinnamon, apricot, etc. belonging to the warm sex is also quite popular. Especially for people with a cold body, they have a weak qi and spleen, low basal metabolic rate, the body produces less heat, the limbs are cold even in summer. In comparison, these people have a whiter than normal complexion and are rarely thirsty and do not like to touch cool things, including going into air-conditioned rooms. Therefore, these people eat more warm fruits is undoubtedly a good supplement for cold.
However, the average person who eats too much warm fruit on a hot day can easily catch fire. For example, lychee contains hypoglycemic ingredients, eat more will appear low sugar reaction. And for the hot body, because of its own energetic, not easy to sleep at night, coupled with a high metabolic rate, so even more can not eat warm fruits. Also, children who are running a fever or have an organ that is inflamed try to avoid it.
Summer warm fruits: lychee, peach, longan, guava, cherry, coconut, durian, apricot and so on.
Suitable people: cold body
Some fruits should not be eaten frozen
Between the hot and cold fruits belong to the peaceful nature. This type of fruit like grapes, pineapple, mango, olives, white fruit, plums, etc., people with different physiques can eat. However, eating fruit can have a lot of attention, eat when you must be careful, especially in the summer, do not want to be cold, not what fruits are suitable for frozen to eat.
Dr. Li suggested that the fruit must choose fresh, rich in nutrients. To eat more whole fruit, as little as possible to eat canned fruit, do not drink fruit juice, because this will lose a lot of dietary fiber. In addition, eat fruit to eat more flesh with color, like hawthorn, jujube, kiwi, mango and other colorful color is rich in vitamin C, B, very nutritious.
In addition to eating fruit to focus on nutrition, the most important thing to eat fruit in the summer is not greedy for cold. Many people love to put the fruit in the freezer to eat, although the chilled fruit taste especially good, eat in special comfortable. But too cold fruit will stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis slows down, but will be indigestion, especially cold stomach or mild gastritis people have to pay attention to.
Dr. Li said, like lychee, persimmons, pears, etc., generally frozen for an hour or two on the almost, do not stay until the next day; and some fruits are not necessarily delicious after freezing, such as watermelon, cantaloupe, peaches, apricots, etc., frozen for an hour or two to get out and taste, and often feel that there is no sweetness, in fact, this is not because of the loss of nutrients, but the frozen time is too long refrigerator water is sucked into the fruit, sweetness is diluted. , the sweetness is diluted. So this fruit is best to eat fresh, if you want to freeze about half an hour is good. In addition, bananas are best not to freeze to eat, one is not sweet, two is frozen after the banana skin, even banana meat will turn black, which is the result of sugar fermentation, it is best not to eat.
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Summer comes to the hot weather, people generally feel thirsty, like to eat a lot of fruit, proper supplementation of water and vitamins beneficial to the human body, but not all fruits can be eaten, and now introduces the patient to eat the fruit of the six taboos:
(1) people suffering from hepatitis, you can eat more tangerines and Red dates and other fruits containing more vitamin C, but do not eat more acidic fruits;
(2) people suffering from diabetes, should eat less sugar-containing pears, apples, bananas, pomegranates, etc.;
(3) people who often have dry stools, can eat more peaches, bananas, oranges, etc., because these fruits have the effect of easing the lower;
(4) people who often have diarrhea, do not eat more There are slow down the role of fruit, can be appropriate to eat some apples, because it has a solid astringent effect;
(5) people with low stomach acid, do not eat plums, hawthorn, lemon and other fruits containing more organic acids;
(6) people suffering from heart disease and edema do not eat watermelon, coconut, etc. containing more water, so as not to increase the burden on the heart and aggravate the edema.