While food can provide satiety and nutrition to the body, if you don't know the rules of consumption, you not only fail to absorb nutrients but can also harm your health. For example, there are many foods that should not be eaten on an empty stomach. Do you know which ones they are?
Sugar: Eating sugar on an empty stomach can easily lead to the glycation of proteins, impairing the absorption of various proteins and leading to atherosclerosis, as well as affecting the normal functions of the kidneys and blood circulation. Moreover, eating sugar on an empty stomach can cause a temporary spike in blood sugar levels, leading to eye diseases.
Garlic: Garlic contains allicin, and its pungent flavor can irritate the intestinal wall, causing the blood vessels in the intestinal wall to become congested and edematous, and leading to excessive secretion of tissue fluid, which can trigger acute gastritis.
Bananas: Bananas contain magnesium. Eating them on an empty stomach can cause a sharp increase in the magnesium level in the blood. An imbalance in the ratio of magnesium to calcium in the blood can have an inhibitory effect on the cardiovascular system, which is detrimental to health.
Tomato: Tomatoes contain large amounts of pectin, persimmon tannin, soluble astringents, and other components. These can easily undergo chemical reactions with stomach acid, forming indissolvable lumps. These lumps can block the pylorus, the exit of the stomach, increasing intragastric pressure and causing acute gastric dilation, resulting in a feeling of bloating and pain.
Persimmon: Eating persimmons on an empty stomach can cause them to combine with stomach acid to form hard, indissolvable masses. This can lead to epigastric pain, vomiting, gastric dilation, gastric ulcers, and in severe cases, even gastric perforation or bleeding.
Orange: Orange juice contains a high amount of sugar and organic acids. Eating oranges on an empty stomach can irritate the gastric mucosa, causing a feeling of fullness and bloating in the stomach, as well as acid reflux.
Soy milk: Drinking soy milk on an empty stomach, without consuming other foods, causes the soy milk to be converted into energy. Soy milk is rich in protein, but when consumed on an empty stomach, it is only used as an energy source (replacing starch) rather than being absorbed as a protein by the body, failing to provide nutritional supplementation. Furthermore, drinking soy milk on an empty stomach can also加重 the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
Honey: Drinking honey water can easily increase the acidity in the body. Over time, this can lead to excessive stomach acid, causing gastric ulcers or duodenal ulcers.