From juicing fruit to eating it as a late-night snack, find out why these common habits aren’t the healthiest.
Rich in various nutrients, fruits are an essential part of a balanced diet and offer multiple health benefits, including weight loss. blood pressure Maintain cholesterol and a healthy weight. But did you know that how you consume fruit affects how it is absorbed in your body? Comprehensive Health Coach Neha Rangrani took to Instagram to tackle the issue and learn how to eat fruit correctly to maximize its health benefits. Suggested how to eat.
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According to experts, our ancestors did not have a variety of foods, so the way they ate fruits Wrong. “They were eating fruit between breakfasts or meals,” Neha wrote in an Instagram post.
The experts have listed below the “weird ways to eat” fruit that we don’t get the most out of.
milkshake
Experts say milk and fruit have different nutritional content and take different amounts of time to digest. Fruit digests faster than milk, and when mixed with fruit, the fructose ferments in the intestines and produces gas. bloating, and other bowel-related problems. “Unfortunately, your favorite fruit milkshake can become toxic to your body over time,” Neha said in the post.
as a dessert or with meals
You’ve probably seen people eating fruit as a dessert or with a meal, but according to Neha, it’s not a healthy habit. It just increases your body’s load of sugar and converts it into fat faster, which stays longer in the gut and makes fat again. bowel related problems. Neha warned people who like to eat mangoes after meals, suggesting that “to get the most benefits from mangoes, eat them at different times of the day.”
midnight snack
Anyone who thinks eating fruit to satisfy their late-night cravings is healthy should know that it’s not. Because you’re less active at night, your body doesn’t need the sugar in the fruit, says Neha. “At night, all your body wants is rest and rest.” repair and do not process food. You don’t want that because the sugar in the fruit is just stored as fat in your body,” says Neha.
juice
Considering that it is good for health, juice is preferred because of its convenience. However, fruit and fruit juice are not the same thing. Fruit is a healthy food rich in nutrients and fiber, but fruit juice is completely stripped of the most important component of fruit: fiber. “Without fiber, fructose is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and taken up by the body. liver And this excess sugar is converted to fat,” Neha said.
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Date first published: March 6, 2023 09:10 IST