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 what they are?
1. Sugar
Eating sugar on an empty stomach can easily lead to the glycation of proteins, which impairs the absorption of various proteins, leading to atherosclerosis and 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, leading to eye diseases.
2. Garlic
Garlic contains allicin, and its pungent flavor can irritate the intestinal wall, causing congestion, edema, and excessive secretion of tissue fluid in the intestinal wall's blood vessels, which can lead to acute gastritis.
3. 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 not good for your health.
4. Tomatoes
Tomatoes contain large amounts of pectin, persimmon tannin, soluble astringents, and other components. These can easily undergo chemical reactions with gastric acid, forming indissolvable lumps. These lumps can block the stomach's exit—the pylorus—increase intragastric pressure, and cause acute gastric dilation, resulting in a feeling of bloating and pain in the stomach.
5. Persimmons
Eating persimmons on an empty stomach can easily cause them to combine with gastric acid to form hard, difficult-to-dissolve masses. This can lead to epigastric pain, vomiting, gastric dilation, gastric ulcers, and even gastric perforation or bleeding.
6. Oranges
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, bloating, and acid reflux in the stomach.
7. Soy Milk
When you drink soy milk on an empty stomach without consuming other foods, the soy milk is converted into energy. Soy milk is rich in protein, but when consumed on an empty stomach, it can only be used as an energy source (replacing starch) and cannot be absorbed by the body as a protein, thus failing to provide nutritional supplementation. Furthermore, drinking soy milk on an empty stomach can also加重 the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
8. 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.