Alkaline food refers to food after combustion of the chemical composition of the resulting ash mainly contains potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium and other elements, which dissolve in water to produce an alkaline solution, such foods include a variety of vegetables, fruits, legumes, dairy, and hard fruits in the almonds, chestnuts and so on.
Plants are 98 percent alkaline, except for California plums and cranberries. All fresh vegetables and fruits are alkalizing. Specifically, such as beans, lettuce, radish, potatoes, lotus root, onions, pumpkin, kelp, watermelon, bananas, apples, raw pears, strawberries, persimmons, tea and so on. The alkalinity of kelp is particularly high, enjoying the reputation of "the crown of alkaline food".
In a healthy state, the human body is generally not affected by the intake of food and lead to changes in acidity and alkalinity. Many of the current "food acidity and alkalinity" claims are actually confusing the "ash from burning food" with the "products of food metabolism".
The important principle of a balanced diet is to diversify food and to ensure a reasonable mix of meat and vegetables. Various types of food contain different nutrients, different health roles, play different health roles, each other can not be replaced. Only harmonious **** place, in order to ultimately obtain the greatest health benefits. The pursuit of the so-called "alkaline" food, abandon the "acidic" food, only from one extreme to another extreme, resulting in a new imbalance. In the long run, the ultimate damage is still the body's health.
From a nutritional point of view, acidic and alkaline food actually refers to the food after combustion of the ash, dissolved in water after the water solution of the acidic and alkaline food is a non-physiological concept to determine the acidity of the food ash, food combustion refers to the oxides of the remaining elements, which is the metabolites of the food in the body digestion, absorption and utilization of food is completely different in nature. The nature of the food is completely different.
In fact, after food is ingested into the human body, it undergoes digestion, absorption and various complex metabolic reactions to form thousands of products. These products are acidic, alkaline, and many are neutral. The acidity or alkalinity of these products is actually no longer directly related to the ash content of the ingested food.
The pH of the body's fluids (i.e., primarily the pH of the blood) is the result of the combined and balanced action of the various metabolic products mentioned above, and is not determined solely by the ash content of the few minerals that are burned in the food. To determine whether a food is acidic or alkaline, it must be scientifically tested.
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