Fruits And Their Rules

Fruits are one of nature’s numerous wonderful gift to mankind; indeed, they are life-enhancing medicines filled with healthy natural deposits of vitamins, water, nutrients and other helpful elements.  However, not many people are aware of the actual fact that eating fruits at the end of lunches or dinners can actually be harmful to the body.

Incorporating fruit into our diet, in the right manner, gives our digestive system more powerful benefits through vitamin intake and improved digestion. Looking at the nutrition of fruit, most fruits offer excellent supply of fiber, potassium, vitamin C and folate and many more. Their nutrients facilitate guard against disease, lower rates of heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure. Specialists counselled that eating fruit carelessly without any nutritional knowledge might bring about more problems to our health than benefits and here are a number of the major rules of eating fruit that will help us rip maximum benefits from eating them:

Make A Habit Of Eating Fruits On An Empty Stomach

This habit will actually do more good to your state of health. Your stomach and digestive system will have no need to use further mechanism to balance the process of digestion, it is also very good to eat fruits after doing physical exercise or any sort of outdoor activities. The digestive process works very quickly and our body uses different enzymes to digest the fruit once it’s taken alone on an empty stomach. The simple sugars contained in fruit needs time to be fully absorbed by your body. Also, when fruits are consumed alone, your stomach can more easily process all of the nutrients, fibre and the simple sugars contained in the fruit. If you do eat fruit on an empty stomach, you will gain the right nutrients that fruits will offer to your health and well being. You will avoid most digestive problems, feel energized, promote weight loss and you’ll look and feel fantastic as a result of your body fully absorbing all the vitamins, fiber and healthy carbohydrates that it needs to be in good health.

Do Not Eat Fruits Immediately After Meals 

It usually takes about 20 minutes for fruits to digest and move to the small intestine where further absorption of the nutrients takes place. However, when we eat fruits after other meals, particularly those ones with a high content of proteins or starch which usually take much longer to digest, the fruits get blocked in our stomach and start fermenting or perhaps get rotten. In such case, no positive nutritional effects will be received. Instead, the meals will not be digested completely , the fruits get broken right in our stomach and our digestive system will be upset and affected.

Do Not Eat Fruits Together With Meals

The same effect that eating fruits immediately after meals will take in the stomach is applicable to when the fruits are mixed with meals. Toxic effects of rotten fruits in your stomach can cause great discomfort and even serious disease. For example, eating kiwis, cherries or berries together with meat, potatoes or other foods containing high level of proteins, starch and fats, can cause numerous problems with digestion, colitis, diarrhea, and even pains in the liver.

Research studies recommend that it is advisable and actually best for one eat fruits daily. It is recommended to eat at least 2-3 servings of fresh fruits every day. 

“Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.” ~Josh Billings.