By and large, all foods that are sweet in the mouth are mostly acidic; on the other hand, those that are more acidic in the mouth are mostly alkaline. For example, most vegetables are alkaline; sweet fruits such as bananas, cheese and apples are acidic; and sour fruits such as grapes, grapefruits, lemons and oranges are alkaline. In our daily life, we can grasp the principle of pH balance accordingly.

So, hawthorn should belong to alkaline fruit!

Acidic food is not the food with acid flavor, but refers to the food with acid root after human body digestion and metabolism, this kind of food generally contains fat, sugar more, such as candy, starch food (such as rice, white flour) and so on.

Alkaline food contains more metal elements, such as calcium, potassium, sodium, iron, magnesium, zinc and so on. After absorption and metabolism by the body to generate alkaline oxides with cations, which can buffer acidic metabolites. Alkaline foods include vegetables, seafood (kelp, seaweed, stone cauliflower, wakame), fruits, tea, coffee and so on. Milk, yogurt is also alkaline food, is eaten with a sour taste of oranges, hawthorn, tomatoes, apricots, etc. is also alkaline food