Is it OK to eat fruit before a meal, and can you eat fruit before a meal?

Okay, it's appetizing, but don't eat too much.

Fruits eaten before meals vs after meals.

When is it good to eat fruit? This question has been bothering a lot of people. Some people say that it is better to eat after a meal, and some people say that it is better to eat before a meal; Some people also say that it is not good to eat before and after meals, and should be eaten on an empty stomach; Some people say that eating fruit on an empty stomach (especially at night) is not good.

But in fact, it is okay to eat fruit at any time, and the benefits of eating fruit at different times are different, and people can eat fruit according to their habits and convenience - as long as there is no gastrointestinal discomfort.

Eating fruit before meals can be beneficial for calorie control**.

Fruits are large in size but contain fewer calories, and eating fruit before meals to satisfy your appetite reduces the intake of other foods (which contain far more calories than fruits), thus reducing your total calorie intake. In addition, eating fruits before meals can also be well digested and absorbed. Since overweight has become a common problem, eating fruit before meals has become the mainstream recommendation.

Of course, for people who are not obese and do not have the stress of being overweight, the above benefits of eating fruit before meals do not exist, and they can be eaten after meals. If you are emaciated, it is better to eat fruit after meals. Some people with stomach problems may experience discomfort when eating fruit before meals (on an empty stomach), so do not eat them before meals.

To control your calorie intake, eating fruit with meals is just as effective. Westerners regard fruits as vegetables, whether they are making salads or desserts, they are eaten with meals. It's okay to eat foods that contain fruit during meals, use fruit as an ingredient in a dish, or serve it directly to the table.

No one stipulates that the fruit must be separated from the three meals.

Since you can drink fruit juice at mealtime, you can eat fruit salad, and you can use small tomatoes for stir-frying, there is no reason why you can't eat fruit. In addition to reducing calorie intake, eating fruit at meals can also reduce salt intake, help digestion, and enrich the content of the table.

Eating fruits after meals is good for digestion.

It is perfectly okay to eat fruit after a meal, as long as there is no feeling of fullness, that is, you have not eaten too much before. Although the fruit is raw, hard, and unheated, it has a large water content and the main ingredients are water-soluble, so it can be digested well when eaten after meals.

Some people worry that the fruits eaten after meals will be trapped in the stomach by the food that arrives in advance, so that they cannot be digested properly, but will be fermented in the stomach, causing bloating and diarrhea. Usually, this only happens when you eat a lot of fruit after a very full meal. If you don't feel bloated, diarrhea, or sick after eating fruit after a meal, there is nothing wrong with it.

The real concern is that eating fruit after a meal may bring extra calories and be detrimental to weight control, so you can also choose to eat fruit between meals.

In short, there are no special contraindications for the time to eat fruits, as long as you don't feel gastrointestinal discomfort, you can eat them at any time. Sometimes for special purposes (e.g., **), it is better to choose to eat fruit at a specific time (e.g., before meals). People with gastrointestinal problems can also choose to eat fruit at any time without aggravating gastrointestinal symptoms.

It is best not to eat fruits on an empty stomach before meals and immediately after meals. It is best to eat fruit two hours after a meal or about 1 hour before a meal. It is better to eat fruit before a meal than after a meal, but be aware that the temperature difference between the fruit and the meal is too great.

It depends on what kind of fruit you eat, some fruits can affect normal eating when eaten before meals, key classification. It doesn't matter if you eat a small amount of fruit before a meal, eat a little in moderation and be appetizing. Just follow this method.

The correct time to eat fruits is about 1 hour before and about 2 hours after meals (except for persimmons). First of all, many of the ingredients in fruits are water-soluble, and eating them before meals is conducive to the absorption of essential nutrients in the body. Secondly, fruit is a low-calorie food, and its average calorie is only 1 4 of the same weight of pasta, and about 1 10 of the same meat such as pork.

Eating low-calorie foods first makes it easier to grasp the total calorie intake in a meal. Third, many fruits themselves are easy to be oxidized and spoiled, and eating fruits first can shorten the time it stays in the stomach, reduce the degree of oxidation and spoilage, and reduce the possible adverse effects on the body.

Fruits should be eaten before meals, not after meals

Eat half an hour before a meal or an hour after a meal, eating fruit before a meal is conducive to the absorption of vitamins, if you eat fruit immediately after a meal will stay in the stomach for too long, which will cause vitamin loss to affect absorption, so it is not suitable to eat immediately after a meal, and eat some fruit before a meal to pad the stomach, it will reduce the amount of food, suitable for people who want to **

Fruits that should not be eaten before meals: tomatoes, persimmons, oranges, hawthorns, bananas, etc. should not be eaten on an empty stomach.

Tomatoes contain pectin, hangjiaool, and accommodating astringents, etc., and if eaten on an empty stomach, they will combine with gastric acid and cause gastric pressure to rise, causing bloating pain;

The tannins contained in persimmons and gastric acid coagulate to form "persimmon stones", and at the same time, patients with leaky gallstones and kidney stones should also be cautious when eating persimmons, so as not to lead to deterioration of the condition;

Tangerines contain a lot of sugar and organic acids, and eating them on an empty stomach is easy to produce stomach bloating and erculent acid;

Hawthorn tastes sour, and eating it on an empty stomach will cause stomach pain;

The potassium and magnesium content in bananas is high, and eating bananas on an empty stomach increases the amount of magnesium in the blood and has an inhibitory effect on the cardiovascular system.