When gathering with friends, drinking is almost inevitable. As the saying goes, alcohol is harmful to your health, and that's true. Excessive long-term drinking can cause significant damage to your stomach and liver. If you must drink, what can you do to protect your liver and stomach? Below, the editor recommends a few foods to drink before alcohol consumption to help protect your liver and stomach.
Protein drinks like milk and soy milk, especially yogurt, are thick in texture and often contain plant-based thickeners. They remain in the stomach for a longer time, which helps dilute alcohol and slow its absorption. Although nutritional drinks have far less nutritional value than milk and yogurt, they also contain thickeners and can help protect the stomach lining to some extent. These beverages are convenient to prepare and drink, and you can continue to drink them legitimately during your drinking breaks.
Fruits and vegetables rich in pectin, such as hawthorn, apples, cauliflower, and pumpkin. You should eat more of these foods. The pectin in them also slows the absorption of food components, and these foods have high water content, which helps dilute alcohol. Since they are very low in calories, you don't have to worry about weight gain from eating more of them.
Starchy foods. Large starch molecules can bind with alcohol and also slow its absorption. Foods rich in amylose are even more ideal, such as legumes. This is because alcohol can get trapped inside the helical structure of the starch molecule, forming an "inclusion complex."
Foods rich in B vitamins, such as lean offal, whole grains, dairy products, egg yolks, and mushrooms.