It is best for the general population to eat fruit between meals, that is, 2 hours after meals or 2 hours before meals. And eating fruit in the morning is better than in the afternoon, and eating fruit in the afternoon is better than in the evening.

Fruit is a low-calorie food, with water content as high as 85%-90%, and contains more carbohydrates in the form of disaccharide and monosaccharide than vegetables.

Therefore, eating fruit before meals can increase satiety, help control the total food intake and avoid overeating. If you eat fruit immediately after a meal, it is equivalent to increasing your food intake when you are basically full, which is easy to cause excessive calorie intake and is not conducive to weight control.

Therefore, for dieters, it is advisable to eat fruits half an hour before meals, but tomatoes, persimmons, bananas, oranges, hawthorn, sugar cane, fresh litchi and other fruits should not be eaten on an empty stomach, which is not conducive to health.

In addition, if you eat fruits immediately after meals, the organic acids rich in fruits can stimulate the secretion of digestive glands and protect the stability of vitamin C. Vitamin C will combine with minerals in other foods and affect its digestion and absorption in the body.

The dietary fiber rich in fruit can reduce cholesterol, prevent atherosclerosis and promote the discharge of harmful substances such as lead in the intestine, which is a water-soluble substance. When the stomach is full of food, digestion and absorption will be obviously affected, and dietary fiber will also increase the wettability of food in the gastrointestinal tract and increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, so it is best to take it between meals.