Spring fruits are now in abundance, and experts from the municipal Nutrition Society are reminding people that fruits such as persimmons, bananas, tomatoes, oranges, and hawthorns should not be eaten on an empty stomach.
When the stomach is empty, the secretion of gastric acid increases, and its concentration is also higher. After consuming a large amount of fruit, if the gastric acid combines with components in the fruit such as pectin, persimmon tannin, and soluble astringents, it can form indissolvable precipitates. If these precipitates clump together into large masses, they can cause various discomforts and digestive tract diseases.
For example, persimmons contain substances like persimmon tannin and pectin, which have a strong astringent effect. Eating a large quantity on an empty stomach can easily cause them to combine with gastric acid and form hard-to-dissolve clumps, potentially leading to "bezoars of the stomach," known in Traditional Chinese Medicine as "persimmon stone disease." Patients with gallstones or kidney stones should also be cautious when eating persimmons to avoid worsening their condition. Bananas contain a large amount of magnesium. If you eat a large quantity of bananas on an empty stomach, it can cause a sharp increase in magnesium levels in the blood, disrupting the balance between magnesium and calcium, and irritating the stomach lining, which is unhealthy. Carrots should not be eaten with alcohol.
Carrots have significant health benefits and medical value, but American food experts are warning people that eating carrots as a side dish with alcohol is unhealthy.
This is because the rich carotene in carrots, when it enters the body together with alcohol, can produce toxins in the liver, leading to liver disease. Therefore, people should change the traditional practice of "eating carrots with alcohol." Carrots are not suitable as a side dish for drinking, and one should not take carotene supplements when drinking alcohol. In particular, one should not drink alcohol immediately after drinking carrot juice to avoid harming health.