Everyone eats fruit for different purposes, which determines that friends eat fruit at different times. If there is no food at home, only fruit can satisfy hunger, then this will be easier to handle. It is the same to eat before and after meals, because your meal is fruit. If friends want to use it for short-term weight loss and long-term puffiness, they can choose to eat it on an empty stomach before meals. Friends who have a history of losing weight know that eating fruit to lose weight is only at present, and once it stops, it will rebound, and it will rebound very badly. Because eating more fruits will form phlegm-dampness constitution and cause puffiness.

Why do people eat fruit? What role should fruit play in human diet? Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to five grains as nourishment, five livestock as benefit, five vegetables as supplement and five fruits as help, that is, millet, wheat, rice, millet and glutinous rice are staple foods, which should account for more than half of the diet; Meat such as pigs, cattle and sheep is further icing on the cake to increase nutrition; Vegetables are used to supplement some trace elements that the human body may lack; As for fruit, it is only used to help digestion. It can be seen that the proportion of fruit in the diet should be small. In addition, since it is used to help digestion, it should only be valuable when there is something to digest in the stomach. So fruit should be eaten after meals in theory.

To give full play to the role of fruit, it is very important to eat it correctly.

According to three meals-

Generally speaking, eating fruit before breakfast can stimulate appetite and promote vitamin absorption. After a night's rest, people's gastrointestinal function is still activated, and their digestive function is not strong, but the body needs to supplement enough nutrition. At this time, eating easily digestible fruits can provide nutritional needs for work or study activities in the morning. But it is best to choose fruits that are not too sour and astringent, such as apples, pears, bananas and grapes (grape food). People with poor gastrointestinal function should not eat fruit at this time.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, due to a period of intense work and study, carbohydrates were basically consumed. Eating a fruit at this time can make the body absorb fructose and glucose quickly and supplement the energy (energy food) needed by the brain and body. This period is also an active stage of body absorption. A large number of vitamins and minerals in fruits play a good role in promoting metabolism in the body.

Chinese medicine believes that at about ten o'clock in the morning, the yang rises, which is the most vigorous time of the day for the spleen and stomach. People with weak spleen and stomach choose to eat fruit at this time, which is more conducive to body absorption. Eating fruit after meals 1 hour helps digestion. You can choose fruits with high organic acid content such as pineapple, kiwi fruit, orange and hawthorn. Eating fruit after a meal is not conducive to digestion, and it is easy to eat more, so that the sugar in it is converted into fat and accumulated in the body.

Fruit contains a variety of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, crude fiber, protein, fat and other essential nutrients, which can promote health, and then achieve the effects of preventing and treating diseases and caring skin. It is the most popular natural health food for modern people.

The best time to eat fresh fruit is in the morning. The same is eating fruit. If you choose to eat fruit in the morning, it will have the greatest effect on the human body, give full play to its nutritional value and produce substances beneficial to human health. This is because, after a night's sleep (sleeping food), the function of the stomach and intestines is still in an activated state, and the digestive function is not strong, but it needs to be supplemented with enough nutrition. At this time, eating easily digestible fruits can meet the nutritional needs of work or study activities in the morning.

So how should I eat it?

Fat people eat before meals and thin people eat after meals.

Fruit itself produces less heat and belongs to low-calorie food. If you eat fruit first, it will help to reduce the amount of other foods, prevent excessive calorie intake, and play a certain role in controlling weight and preventing obesity. For people who need to lose weight (diet food), eating fruit before meals is more effective than simply dieting.

However, for people with normal weight or who need to gain weight, the time to eat fruit should be after meals. As for how long after a meal, it can be decided according to personal feelings. If you eat a lot and your stomach is full, you can eat fruit after meals 1-2 hours; If there is not much food, it is not greasy when you eat it, and you feel that your stomach can hold more food, then you can eat fruit. Many people have this experience, because eating half a watermelon every day in summer results in a lot of meat in one summer. This is precisely because a lot of sugar is added to the three meals, which leads to the increase of fat.

Fruit is not suitable for dessert.

Eating after meals is easy to combine organic acids with minerals in other foods, which affects the digestion and absorption of the human body. Pectin in fruit can absorb water and increase the water content of food in the gastrointestinal tract, so eating fruit after meals will also increase the burden on the stomach. The correct time to eat fruit is 65438+ 0 hour before meals and about 2 hours after meals (except persimmons).

First of all, many ingredients in fruit are water-soluble, so eating before meals is beneficial to the absorption of essential nutrients; Secondly, fruits are low-calorie foods, and their average calories are only 1/4 of the same weight of pasta and110 of the same weight of pork and other meats. Eating low-calorie food first makes it easier to grasp the total calorie intake of each meal; Third, many fruits are easily oxidized and corrupted. Eating fruit first can shorten its residence time in the stomach, reduce its oxidative corruption and reduce the possible adverse effects on the body; Fourth, be careful not to eat fruit before going to bed at night, or a full stomach will affect sleep. Never think that eating fruit is a trivial matter. Only by eliminating these misunderstandings can we cultivate truly healthy living habits.

Which fruits can be fatal to eat before meals?

Maybe, my friends will say, I just want to eat fruit before meals. This is anybody's guess. After all, a fruit is unlikely to kill people in most cases. Just a reminder, some fruits will be miserable before meals.

Hawthorn: also known as hawthorn and rouge fruit. Hawthorn also contains a lot of acidic substances. If you eat on an empty stomach before meals, it will cause a sharp increase in gastric acid, which will cause adverse stimulation to the gastric mucosa, and it is easy to be full and pantothenic, which will aggravate the original stomach pain. In addition, tannic acid contained in raw hawthorn is easy to form stones when combined with gastric acid, so the more gastric acid, the easier it is to form stones.

Persimmon: Although persimmon can clear away heat, moisten dryness, moisten lung and eliminate phlegm, it can't be eaten more, let alone on an empty stomach. Persimmon contains more tannic acid, tannin and fruit acid. These substances will condense into lumps and precipitate in the stomach when they encounter gastric acid, forming stones, which are more and more firm and not easy to crush, leading to gastric mucosal congestion, edema, erosion, ulcer, and serious gastric perforation.

In addition, litchi and papaya should also be eaten half an hour after meals, which can not only prevent indigestion, but also prevent these beneficial things from becoming harmful substances.