In autumn and winter, there may be more oranges to eat. Sweet and sour oranges are the favorite of many people, but many people find their skin turns yellow after eating oranges. What's the matter? Why do oranges turn yellow after eating?
1. Can orange skin turn yellow
Orange skin may turn yellow. Orange is rich in carotene, a large amount of food will lead to carotene can not be converted into vitamin A in time, a large number of carotene will flow to all tissues and organs of the whole body with the blood, when the content of carotene in the blood and sweat increases, it will make the skin yellow, resulting in orange disease.
2. What to do if the skin turns yellow
Eating oranges causes the skin to turn yellow, which is not a pathological change of the body. As long as you stop eating foods rich in carotene and pigment, the skin color will return to normal about a week later, without too much worry.
3. Oranges should not be eaten more
Eating too many oranges will not only cause the skin to turn yellow, but also easy to catch fire. Tangerine is a hot fruit, especially for those with high internal heat. Otherwise, they may suffer from mouth and tongue sores and constipation.
4. What eat more skin turns yellow
Carrots contain a lot of carotene. If you eat too much, it will also increase the content of carotene in the blood, causing 'carotenemia', leading to yellowing of the skin. In addition, persimmon, pumpkin and other foods also contain a lot of pigment, eating more will lead to skin yellowing.
5. Precautions for eating oranges
(1) You can't eat more oranges
According to the test, eating three oranges a day can meet everyone's daily need for vitamin C.
If you eat too much, excessive intake of vitamin C, the body metabolism of oxalic acid will increase, easy to cause urinary stones, kidney stones. In addition, eating more is harmful to the mouth and teeth.
Eating too many oranges is harmful to children's mouth, teeth and gastric mucosa.
If children overeat oranges, the heat produced can not be converted into fat and stored in the body, and can not be consumed in time, it will be caused by the accumulation of 'fire', manifested as stomatitis, periodontitis, pharyngitis and constipation.
(2) Less for those with poor gastrointestinal function
If you eat too many oranges, you will easily suffer from the trouble of gastric excrement stone. Excessive consumption of citrus fruits can cause 'orange disease', skin yellowing and other symptoms.
(3) Oranges and milk should not be eaten together
The protein in milk is easy to react with the fruit acid and vitamin C in orange and coagulate into blocks, which not only affects digestion and absorption, but also causes abdominal distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. You should eat orange one hour after drinking the milk.
In addition, people with deficiency of gastrointestinal, renal and lung functions should not eat more to avoid abdominal pain, waist and knee tenderness.
(4) Not to eat with radish
When radish enters the human body, it will quickly produce a substance called sulfate, and quickly metabolize to produce an antithyroid substance - thiocyanate.
If you eat oranges at this time, the flavonoids in oranges will be broken down in the gut, and converted into hydroxybenzoic acid and ferulic acid, which can strengthen the inhibition of thiocyanate on the thyroid, thus inducing or leading to goiter.
(5) Take medicine and avoid oranges
Orange is rich in fruit acid and vitamin C. when taking vitamin K, sulfanilamide drugs, spironolactone, tripterine and potassium supplements, orange should be avoided.
(6) Avoid making tea with orange peel
Most of the peeled oranges are soaked in preservative and then put on the market. Preservative is a kind of chemical preparation. The soaked oranges have no effect on the pulp, but the residual preservative on the orange peel is difficult to wash off with clear water. If such orange peel is used to soak in water instead of tea, it is harmful to health.