Many people are accustomed to eating a lot of fruit after a meal, believing it can aid gastrointestinal motility. In fact, this is not very scientific. Because after a full meal, food enters the stomach and requires a 1-2 hour digestion process to be slowly discharged. Eating fruit after a meal does not aid digestion.
If you eat a lot of fruit immediately after a meal, it will be blocked in the stomach by the food. If it stays in the stomach for too long, it can cause symptoms such as bloating, diarrhea, or constipation. Over time, this will lead to digestive dysfunction.
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If our main meal includes some calcium-rich fish and shrimp, we should eat less fruit afterward, especially fruits like persimmons, pomegranates, and grapes that contain more tannic acid. The calcium in fish and shrimp will combine with the tannic acid in the fruit to form a hard substance—tannic acid calcium. This not only reduces the nutritional value of the fish and shrimp but also affects digestion, and can even cause discomfort such as bloating, diarrhea, and constipation. Therefore, it is recommended to eat fish and shrimp and fruit separately, or at least eat fruit two hours after consuming fish and shrimp. The best time to eat fruit is also two hours after a meal.
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