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The general public drink some soup before meals, can promote gastric juice secretion, help digestion and absorption, but there is a superficial gastritis people should drink after meals, so as not to aggravate the symptoms.

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Drinking soup, in the end should be before meals or after meals? When it comes to drinking soup you will certainly think of Cantonese style soup, you see people in Guangdong will drink some nourishing soup before dinner, and then eat.

In fact, since ancient times, there has been a "soup before meals, better than a good prescription", which is true.

Because from the mouth, throat, esophagus to the stomach, like a channel, is the food must pass through. Before eating, drink a few mouthfuls of soup (or into a little water), equal to this digestive tract to add some "lubricant", so that food can be swallowed smoothly, to prevent dry and hard food *** digestive mucosa. Between meals, halfway into the soup from time to time also helps to dilute the food and stir, which is conducive to gastrointestinal digestion and absorption of food. If you don't drink soup before meals, and don't enter the soup during meals, you will lose too much body fluid due to the massive secretion of gastric juice after meals and produce thirst, and only then drink water, instead of diluting gastric juice, affecting the absorption and digestion of food.

Therefore, nutritionists believe that, to develop the habit of eating before meals constantly into the soup, but also to reduce the occurrence of esophagitis, gastritis and so on. It has also been found that those who drink a variety of soups, milk and soymilk on a regular basis have the easiest time keeping their digestive tracts in a healthy state.

Of course, soup before meals is not that much better to drink, to vary from person to person, but also to master the time into the soup. Generally half a bowl of soup before dinner is appropriate, and before breakfast can be more appropriate, because after a night's sleep, the human body loss of water is more. Into the soup time to about 20 minutes before the meal is good, eating can also be a small amount of slow into the soup. Do not "drink".