Introduction: Drinking yogurt on an empty stomach will diminish its health benefits. However, drinking it two hours after a meal or before bedtime can provide nourishing, health-promoting effects, aid digestion, and help relieve gas and promote bowel movements.
Milk and Soy Milk
These two foods contain a large amount of protein. When consumed on an empty stomach, the protein is "forced" to be converted into energy and burned off, failing to provide nutritional benefits. The correct way to consume them is to eat them with foods containing flour, such as snacks or biscuits, or to drink them two hours after a meal or before bedtime.
Yogurt
Drinking yogurt on an empty stomach will diminish its health benefits. However, drinking it two hours after a meal or before bedtime can provide nourishing, health-promoting effects, aid digestion, and help relieve gas and promote bowel movements.
Tea
Drinking tea on an empty stomach can dilute gastric juice, reduce digestive function, and also cause "tea intoxication," which is characterized by symptoms like palpitations, dizziness, headache, fatigue, and unsteady standing.
Sugar
Sugar is a food that is very easily digested and absorbed. Consuming a large amount of sugar on an empty stomach causes the body to be unable to secrete enough insulin to maintain normal blood sugar levels in a short time, causing a sharp rise in blood sugar, which can easily lead to eye diseases. Furthermore, sugar is an acidic food, and eating it on an empty stomach can disrupt the body's acid-base balance and the balance of various microorganisms, which is detrimental to health.
Persimmons and Tomatoes
They contain a significant amount of pectin and tannic acid. These substances undergo a chemical reaction with stomach acid to form indissolvable gel-like substances, which can easily lead to the formation of stomach stones.
Bananas
Bananas contain a relatively high amount of magnesium. Eating bananas on an empty stomach can cause a sharp increase in magnesium levels in the body, disrupting the magnesium-calcium balance in the blood. This can have an inhibitory effect on the cardiovascular system and is not good for your health.
Hawthorn and Oranges
They contain large amounts of organic acids, fruit acids, hawthorn acid, and citric acid. Consuming them on an empty stomach can cause a sharp increase in stomach acid, adversely irritating the gastric mucosa and leading to symptoms like bloating, belching, and acid reflux.
Sweet Potato
Sweet potatoes contain tannins and pectin, which can stimulate the stomach wall to secrete more acid, causing discomfort such as heartburn.
Cold Drinks
Consuming large amounts of frozen foods on an empty stomach can stimulate the gastrointestinal tract to go into spasms. Over time, this can lead to a disorder of various enzyme-catalyzed chemical reactions and trigger gastrointestinal diseases. It can also cause menstrual irregularities in women during their period.