Four seas net: apple is our most common fruit, the nutritional value can be called the king of fruit, but we have to eat apple in time. As the saying goes, gold apple in the morning, Silver Apple in the noon, poison apple in the evening, which means the best time to eat apple in the morning. Do you know that you can eat apple on an empty stomach in the morning? What are the benefits of eating apple? Let's take a look at it together!
How about eating apples on an empty stomach in the morning?
First of all, the people who ask "how about eating apples on an empty stomach in the morning" are usually ordinary healthy people. Maybe they have eaten it on an empty stomach. Although they have no discomfort symptoms, they are worried about whether it will be bad for their health. In fact, for ordinary healthy people, as long as your stomach feels comfortable and there is no discomfort, you can eat fruit if you want. You don't have to worry too much about eating fruit and whether you have an empty stomach.
If it's people with bad intestines and stomach, it's not recommended to eat apples on an empty stomach. People with gastrointestinal problems may have adverse reactions from fruits that are too acidic, tannic, and highly protease. Even apples with low acidity and tannin content on an empty stomach will feel sick to the stomach.
Also, some diabetics should be aware that there is no good in eating apples in the morning. Because of the high content of monosaccharide in apple. It will cause fluctuation of blood sugar in the body, which should be paid attention to.
If you're normal and worry about malic acid hurting your stomach, think more. Because the pH value of gastric acid is 2, which is stronger than that of all foods. As long as the fruit is not eaten in large quantities, for example, eating eight ten oranges at a time, or drinking a large amount of lemon juice, it will not produce too much acid and hurt the stomach.
Two benefits of eating apples on an empty stomach
1. Eating apples on an empty stomach can cure constipation
For the general healthy people, eating apples on an empty stomach can make the body absorb a lot of pectin and plant fiber, which is good for softening stool and promoting intestinal movement, and can reduce the occurrence of human constipation.
2. Eating apples on an empty stomach can relieve diarrhea
Eating apples on an empty stomach can alleviate chronic diarrhea, and it is also a great benefit for people to eat apples on an empty stomach. Because the acidic substances in apples will be more easily absorbed by the human body after they enter the human body on an empty stomach. Moreover, apples have a certain astringent effect, which can control the movement of the intestines. In addition, apples can also reduce inflammation and kill bacteria, which has a good cleaning effect on the bacteria in the intestines, so it can stop The effect of diarrhea.
Do you have to eat fruit by time?
There is a saying that is very popular - "the fruit in the morning is gold, the fruit in the noon is silver, and the fruit in the evening is copper".
In fact, it comes from the ancient proverbs of foreign countries. Fruit is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night. From a nutritional point of view, it is not much scientific.
(there is another variation of this sentence in foreign countries, that is, the word "fruit" is replaced by "butter", and the meaning of expression is extended to "too much is too much", which is not the original literal meaning.)
Because after eating, the digestive system of healthy people will secrete digestive fluid and enhance peristalsis to promote digestion and absorption, which is not directly related to the time of eating, but to a certain extent related to age - usually, the digestive fluid secretion of the elderly will be reduced and the digestive function will be decreased. In other words, no matter in the morning or in the evening, the absorption of fruits by the digestive system is not different.
If you don't eat fruit at night, do you want to eat other things for dinner? Moreover, fruit is a very digestible food, because the most content of fruit is water and carbohydrate, and carbohydrate is the most digestible and easily absorbed nutrient among the three major energy nutrients.
For normal people, it's not a big problem to eat apples on an empty stomach or at any time in the morning. But often some people only eat one apple for breakfast, which is not scientific and reasonable.
Take a healthy adult male with light physical labor as an example. He needs 2250 calories of energy a day. Breakfast accounts for 30% of the energy in a day. A big apple can only provide 7% of the energy in a day. Moreover, protein, fat and vitamins are very scarce.
Lack of energy in the morning can lead to inattention and even hypoglycemia.
Fruit has a lot of benefits to our health. It is recommended to eat more fruit in the world. However, the actual situation is that the consumption of fruit by the residents of the world is still relatively low, far from the recommended consumption.
The latest dietary nutrition guidelines for residents in China recommend that you should eat 200-350 grams of fruit every day, and fruit juice can't replace fresh fruit. Therefore, the problem we are facing now is more that we don't eat enough fruit, rather than the wrong time.
Have you eaten the apple peel, too?
A lot of people are in a hurry to go out with the apple, it is likely to ignore peeling. In terms of nutrition, the content of flavonoids in apple peel is much higher than that in flesh (there is a negative correlation between the intake of flavonoids and the mortality of cardiovascular disease). In addition, the cellulose content of apple peel is 2-3 times of that of flesh.
To lose the peel means to lose a lot of flavonoids and a lot of cellulose. However, according to this year's World Health Organization (who) recommendation to Chinese people, peel fruits.
It's not only the pesticide residue on the peel, but also the wax on the apple peel: natural fruit wax, edible wax and industrial wax. For the natural fruit wax, you can rest assured that the harm of the edible wax to the body is relatively small, while the industrial wax contains mercury and lead, which is harmful to human health, so the apple must be peeled.
So I suggest you eat apples like this:
1. People with bad gastrointestinal tract should not eat apples on an empty stomach. It is recommended to drink some hot porridge in the morning to strengthen the spleen and so on;
2. Although peeling may not be able to prevent pesticide residues, it is better to peel apples with fresh and bright appearance or imported apples;
3. Even if the time is too tight, chew carefully to facilitate digestion and absorption of nutrients;
4. It is suggested that you should take apple as an extra meal in the morning, which means that you need to eat on time in the morning;
5. If you have to eat an apple on an empty stomach in the morning, remember to have breakfast, even if it's just a vegetable and meat bag, a bowl of porridge, a corn, a cup of soy milk or an egg.
Finally, I remind you that nutrition must be balanced, and fruit should not be excessive.