Many people love eating persimmons. Indeed, persimmons are a delicious fruit with rich nutritional value and unique medicinal properties, making them very popular. However, there are taboos when eating persimmons!! What are they? Hurry and check it out with the editor!
Persimmons should not be eaten on an empty stomach, should not be eaten in excess, and raw persimmons should be avoided: Persimmons contain a large amount of pectin and persimmon tannic acid. Unripe persimmons also contain tannins (the content is less than 1% when ripe, but can be as high as 25% when unripe). When they encounter stomach acid, they can coagulate into lumps; when too many persimmons are eaten, the lumps can even turn into hard masses--gastric persimmon stones. Their rough surface continuously grinds against the gastric mucosa, which can lead to erosion or ulcers of the gastric mucosa, causing damage such as hematemesis or hematochezia.
It is not advisable to eat persimmon skin in excess: Persimmon skin contains more tannins, which are more likely to combine with stomach acid to form gastric persimmon stones.
Persimmons should not be eaten with crabs: Crabs are salty in taste and cold in nature, and are slightly toxic, entering the liver and stomach meridians. Eating them with persimmons, which are also cold in nature, can cause stomach cold and abdominal pain. This is especially taboo for those with a weak spleen and stomach; moreover, tannic acid and other components in persimmons can coagulate the protein in crabs, possibly causing adverse reactions such as vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
Persimmons should not be eaten with high-protein foods: Just like crabs, other high-protein foods such as fish, shrimp, shellfish, and milk can also easily coagulate into lumps under the action of tannic acid, forming gastric persimmon stones.
Persimmons should not be eaten with sweet potatoes: Persimmons contain tannins and colloids, which can stimulate the stomach wall to secrete gastric acid, causing discomfort such as heartburn; sweet potatoes contain amylase, and eating them can also cause heartburn, acid regurgitation, abdominal bloating, and gas.
Persimmons should not be eaten with black dates, hawthorns, oranges, or pomegranates: Plant-based gastric stones are most often caused by persimmons, hawthorns, and black dates, and oranges, pomegranates, etc., can also cause them. These fruits (especially unripe ones) have a high tannic acid content. When tannic acid comes into contact with stomach acid, it can form tannic acid protein, which is difficult to dissolve in water. It deposits in the stomach and then coagulates with pectin and plant fibers to form a mass, i.e., a bezoar.
Diabetics should avoid eating them: Persimmons contain 10.8% sugar, most of which are simple disaccharides and monosaccharides (such as sucrose, fructose, and glucose). Therefore, eating them can easily raise blood sugar. For diabetics, especially those with poor blood sugar control, it is even more harmful.
Those with chronic gastritis, delayed gastric emptying, indigestion, and other hypogalactic motor functions, and those who have undergone a partial gastrectomy, should not eat persimmons: Because patients with excessive gastric acid secretion or poor gastric motility and slow peristalsis are more prone to forming bezoars.
Although persimmons are good, they have many taboos. Only by eating them in a proper way can their edible and medicinal value be fully utilized. The taboos of persimmons are a necessary health lesson for those who love to eat them.