Fruits before food or after meals?

Have you ever wonder bout this question? Should you be taking your fruits before or after meal? This question prompt up to me when I was having tea session with my mui. She told me that fruits should be taken BEFORE meal. So I went home and googled bout this. And following are the findings.



“ Chinese medicine head of the department Guo ZhiHong of the general hospital of the Second Artillery Force thinks, will eat fruits at once after a meal, it is apt to cause the emergence of the overweight and fat phenomenon of weight. Regard fruit as the desserts after a meal, the organic acid among them will be bound with mineral in other food, influence the body to digest and assimilate; The pectin in the fruit absorbs the moisture, increases the function of the moist intensity of food in the intestines and stomach, so will eat the burden that fruits will also aggravate the intestines and stomach at once after a meal.

The correct time to eat the fruit is an hour before a meal (except persimmon). First of all, a lot of compositions are water soluble in the fruit, eat the absorption which is favorable to the essential nutrient of body before a meal. Secondly, fruit food with low heat, its heat equal weight 1/4 of wheaten food only on average, the pork waits for carnivorous about 1/10 on an equal basis. Eat the food with low heat first, it is apter to hold in a meal total heat takes in. Third, the easy to be oxidized, corruption of a lot of fruits, eating fruits first can shorten its residence time in the stomach, reduce its oxidizing, corrupt intensity. And satiated with food to later take fruits at once, the fructose included can enter the intestines in time, ferment among stomach, produce organic and sour, cause abdominal distension, suffer from diarrhea, take fruit take one hour after the meal.”


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