Avoid lightning stimulation, stomach pain, eat the right fruits to stabilize blood sugar

In recent years, people have begun to eat fruit before meals, believing that it is more healthy. However, some people actuallyAbdominal crampsWhich fruits, if eaten on an empty stomach, will not only not be good for your health, but may also harm your body?

Sour fruits: citrus, hawthorn

Tu Diya, a nutritionist at Zhenxing Hospital, believes that eating sour fruits on an empty stomach can easily stimulate the secretion of gastric acid and is not suitable for people with poor stomachs.

Traditional Chinese medicine holds the same view. Yang Shumei, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor at the Beigang Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, who has written health books such as "Vegetable Therapy" and "Fruit Therapy", said that sour fruits such as oranges and hawthorns contain a large amount of fruit acid or organic acids such as hawthorn acid, which can easily cause people to have symptoms of acid reflux. Even for ordinary people, eating oranges on an empty stomach can easily irritate the gastric mucosa. As for patients with chronic digestive tract diseases, it is more likely to aggravate gastritis and gastric ulcers.

Fruits with too much sugar: Lychee

Yang Shumei believes that fruits with high sugar content, such as lychees, will not only stimulate gastric acid secretion, but eating them on an empty stomach will also cause a sudden surge in sugar in the body because the liver's convertase will not have time to convert the fructose in the fruit into glucose, which may cause dizziness.

Fruits high in tannin: persimmons, tomatoes

Persimmons and tomatoes are both fruits and vegetables with high tannin content and are not suitable for consumption on an empty stomach. Yang Shumei said that tannins will interact with stomach acid and condense into lumps in the stomach, causing indigestion and, in severe cases, stomach pain.

Starchy fruits: unripe bananas

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition pointed out in a study that foods with high starch content are difficult to digest and easily cause bloating. Bananas are one of these fruits, which explains why some people experience stomach discomfort when eating bananas on an empty stomach. The study also mentioned that the starch content of early-ripened bananas is 12 times that of fully ripe ones.

Li Wanping, a nutritionist at Rongxin Clinic, explained that the starch in bananas mentioned in foreign studies is resistant starch, which has similar properties to fiber and is not easily absorbed by the human body. Therefore, some people now regard it as a weight loss fruit, but ifPoor gastrointestinal function, but it may cause indigestion.

Li Wanping believes that choosing to replace dessert with fruit when you are not yet hungry but your blood sugar has started to drop can help stabilize blood sugar and will not hinder the absorption of nutrients in the fruit, thus providing the greatest benefit to your health.