Fruit contains many human needs of nutrition and health components, its beneficial effect of the human body has been recognized by more and more people, so many people have become the fruit every day to eat one food. But as for how to eat fruit in order to not only guarantee the absorption of nutrients to her, would not cause any bad effects?
In foreign countries is a saying that “the fruit is golden morning, noon to 3 pm is silver, 3:00 to 6:00 is copper, it is after the 6:00 lead.” Morning, the golden age of fruit, choose the morning to eat fruit, the most effect on the human body, it can bring the nutritional value, have a beneficial health substances. This argument also has some truth, but not so absolute.
Now know that fruits and at least the following functions:
First, the fruit contains pectin, cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and other dietary fiber, promotes intestinal peristalsis and defecation, for the prevention and treatment of constipation has a good effect; because of reduced stool in the intestine of the residence time, For the prevention of colon cancer, etc. have a certain effect; help the human body in the lead and other heavy metals from the body; reducing cholesterol absorption; for the normal intestinal flora in breeding and nutrition provide a forum conducive to maintaining intestinal flora in the balance.
Second, the fruit is rich in potassium, calcium, magnesium and other minerals, through the metabolic product of post-alkaline, it is called as basic food. Meat, fish, eggs, aquatic products, soy foods such as acidic metabolic end product, are as acidic food. The body’s metabolism only in the weak alkaline conditions can normally. Now many people eat more high-protein, high fat and high-heat food, make the blood acidic, so correcting acidic fruits, the environment, to maintain a normal body pH of great significance.
Third, the human needs in addition a source of vitamin C is fruit and vegetables, and fruit for vitamin C there are synergies.
In addition, there is fruit in the protease can promote the digestion of proteins; citrus, cherry, lemon, sea buckthorn and other fruits of the flavonoids scavenging role of free radicals.
To play the positive role of fruit, eat right is very important.
In accordance with three meals a day in terms of –
In general, both the appetizer before breakfast fruit can also promote the absorption of vitamins, the human gastrointestinal After a night of rest, function is still active, the digestion is not strong, but the body also need to add sufficient nutrients, this time to eat easy-to – digestion and absorption of fruit, for morning work or learning activities to provide the necessary nutrients. However, before a meal to eat the fruit for the best choice is not too strong acidity, astringency is not too strong, such as apples, pears, bananas, grapes and so on. Gastrointestinal function bad people should not eat fruit at this time.
Shidianzuoyou the morning, because after a period of intense work and study, carbohydrate basically exhausted, this time eating fruit, the fructose and glucose can quickly be absorbed by the body to supplement the energy required for brain and body, while the This period also happens to be the body to absorb the active stage, the fruit a lot of vitamins and minerals, on the body’s metabolism play a very good role in promoting.
TCM said: Shidianzuoyou the morning, rising yang, is the spleen and stomach among the most productive time of the day, weak stomach who chose this time to eat the fruit, more conducive to the body to absorb. 1 hour after the meal to eat fruit and helps digestion, choose pineapple, kiwi, orange, hawthorn and other organic acid content and fruit. To eat fruit after dinner is not conducive to digestion, are also easily due to eating too much, so that one of the sugars into fat accumulation in the body.
Fruits contain a variety of body essential vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, crude fiber, protein and fat and other nutrients, can promote good health, thus combating the disease, skin beautification effect, is the most modern popular natural health food.
Now available to a large number of seasonal fresh fruit. However, the fruit should also pay attention to time, the best eating fresh fruit in the morning hours. Also eat the fruit, if you choose to eat the morning of fruit, the most effect on the human body, it can bring the nutritional value, have a beneficial health substances. This is because the human body to sleep through the night, after the function is still active in the stomach, digestive function is not strong, but need to add enough variety of nutrients, this time to eat the fruit easy to digest and absorb, you can cope with work or learning activities in the morning nutritional requirements.
Eat before meals or after dinner to eat?
Before meals to eat fat people, thin person eat after dinner.
Fruit itself is less heat production belonging to low heat to food, eat fruit again if the food, so that fruit and occupy a certain volume of the stomach, it will help to reduce the amount of eating other foods to prevent ingestion of excessive heat, the control of body weight the prevention of obesity have a certain role. For those who need to lose weight, eat the fruit before supper better than simply the effect of dietary restraint.
However, for normal-weight or need to fatten up the people, time to eat fruit after a meal should be placed. As for dinner, how long can express their personal feelings to be. If the meal food intake is already quite large, stomach fullness, you can eat fruit after a meal 1-2 hours; if he eats much food, not greasy, feeling stomach can hold more food, At that time nothing wrong with eating the fruit. Many people have such an experience, because in the summer to eat half a watermelon a day, the results of a summer off, long a lot of meat. This is due to a large number of sugar to increase beyond three meals a day, gave rise to an increase in fat.
Bearing in mind the four points, whether fasting postprandial Note:
First, do not smell too strong Suanse fasting eat fruit, avoid stomach a stimulus, but also may be related to stomach the formation of poorly soluble protein substances.
Second, do not eat immediately after eating fruit. This will be an early block to reach the food in the stomach, resulting in fruit can not be properly digested in the stomach, but fermented in the stomach, causing bloating, diarrhea or constipation and other symptoms. Long run also lead to digestive disorders, will also bring additional energy.
Thirdly, special attention is the fruit’s temperature. If you eat a lot of greasy food, eat a large number of cold fruit, cold stomach blood vessels by the contraction of the gastrointestinal weakness, for cold-sensitive people, may affect the digestion and absorption, even cause stomach upset. Therefore, the fruit should be at room temperature is appropriate, not greedy just the fridge out of fruit.
Fourth, select fruit varieties should be considered physical. Diabetics should choose low-sugar, high-pectin fruits such as strawberry, peach, etc.; anemia in patients with vitamin C should be chosen with higher levels of longan, jujube, strawberry, etc.; Lengtong diarrhea, abdominal easily should avoid bananas and pears, etc. and so on. Chinese medicine experts may be consulted in this regard the decision.
In addition, the fruit is not the more the better, timely and eating healthy, eating, or overeating, or if no inconsistent with the seasons, will also be pathogenic.