In the eyes of women, fruits are the best ambassadors of delicious food. Their mindset is: eating fruits is always beneficial and never harmful; eating more fruits can help with weight loss and beauty; and so on... If an authoritative expert solemnly pointed out that all the above "anyways" are lies, how would women react? These blind concepts are pushing fruits to the brink of being harmful...
Harmful Concept 1: Fruit is always beneficial and harmless to eat, no matter when.
Expert reminder: Fruit is not something that can be eaten arbitrarily. It contains relatively high levels of organic acids and tannins, and some fruits contain highly active proteases that may irritate and harm the stomach, leading to symptoms like stomach pain, bloating, diarrhea, and indigestion.
Practical strategy: Choose fruits based on individual needs.
Harmful Concept 2: Fruit can replace vegetables.
Expert reminder: The amount of minerals and vitamins in fruit is far less than in vegetables. If you don't eat vegetables, relying solely on fruit is absolutely insufficient to provide adequate nutrients.
Inexpensive vegetables are sometimes superior to fruit. In terms of vitamin C content, inexpensive cabbage and radish have about 10 times more than apples, pears, and peaches. The vitamin C content in green peppers and cauliflower is 2-3 times that of strawberries and citrus fruits.
Where fruit surpasses vegetables: Fruit contains organic acids and aromatic substances that play an important role in stimulating appetite and helping nutrient absorption. Moreover, fruit does not require cooking, so there is no loss of nutrients.
Practical countermeasure: 500 grams of a variety of vegetables are essential daily.
Harmful Concept 3: Fruit contains a lot of vitamins.
Expert reminder: The vitamin C content in most fruits is not high, and the content of other vitamins is even more limited. There are 13 types of vitamins, which come from a variety of foods. It is extremely unwise to rely solely on fruit to provide all vitamins. For example, to meet the recommended daily intake of vitamin C for a person, you would need to consume 5 kilograms of Fuji apples, which is an absolutely impossible task.
Fruits rich in vitamin C: Fruits rich in vitamin C include fresh jujubes, kiwis, hawthorns, grapefruits, strawberries, and citrus fruits. However, the vitamin C content in commonly eaten fruits like apples, pears, peaches, apricots, bananas, and grapes is very low.
Fruits rich in carotene: Mango is the fruit with the highest carotene content. Citrus fruits, yellow apricots, pineapples, and other yellow fruits also contain small amounts of carotene.
Practical strategy: Eat both common and wild fruits.