Even eating fruit requires choosing the right time.

Introduction: The unique fragrance of mangoes captivates many and makes them irresistible. However, eating mangoes during menstruation can lead to blood stagnation. Do you know why? Besides mangoes, there are many other fruits that should not be eaten under certain circumstances. Come and find out!

Fruits Not to Eat During Menstruation

1. Mango

Mangoes are extremely nutritious, rich in vitamin A, and have the effects of cleansing the intestines, preventing constipation, and beautifying the skin, making them a popular fruit. However, mangoes have a hemostatic effect. Eating too many during menstruation can cause blood to accumulate in the body and not be discharged, which is unhealthy for the body. Furthermore, mangoes are slightly cold-natured. Consuming large quantities or eating them chilled can easily lead to the invasion of cold into the body, which combines with the blood and also causes poor menstrual flow.

Mango Pudding

2. Watermelon

Watermelon is a very delicious fruit, especially during the "autumn tiger" season, when eating a piece can be incredibly refreshing. However, watermelon is also a typical example of a cold-natured fruit. Traditional Chinese medicine believes it can lead to a deficiency and coldness in the spleen and stomach, causing abdominal pain from cold accumulation, and frequent urination. Therefore, although watermelon contains various amino acids and sugars and has the effects of clearing heat, relieving summer heat, and quenching thirst, even healthy people should not eat it in excess, and women on their period should be especially cautious.

Fruits Not to Eat on an Empty Stomach

1. Persimmon

Persimmons contain a lot of pectin and tannic acid. These substances react with stomach acid to form a gel-like substance that is difficult to dissolve, which can easily lead to stomach stones. Eating persimmons on an empty stomach causes large amounts of persimmon gum and red tannin收敛剂 to coagulate with stomach acid, forming hard "persimmon stones." If these hard blocks cannot pass through the pylorus to the small intestine, they will remain in the stomach, forming a persimmon stone. Small stones may initially be the size of an apricot pit but will grow larger over time. If a persimmon stone cannot be passed naturally, it can cause intestinal obstruction, easily leading to nausea, vomiting, gastric ulcers, or even a perforated stomach.

Persimmon Roll

2. Banana

Bananas are rich in sugar and fiber, which aids digestion and relieves constipation. Bananas also contain a relatively high amount of magnesium. Eating bananas on an empty stomach can cause a sudden increase in magnesium in the body, disrupting the magnesium-calcium balance in the blood and inhibiting the cardiovascular system, which is not good for your health. Furthermore, when the stomach is empty, there is almost no food for digestion. Eating bananas at this time will speed up gastrointestinal motility, promote blood circulation, and increase the heart's load, which can easily lead to a myocardial infarction. Experts remind not to eat bananas on an empty stomach. It is generally safer to eat them after a meal or when not feeling hungry.

3. Tomato

Caramel Apple

Fruits Not to Eat Before or After a Meal

Apple

Usually, we think that after a meal is the best time to eat fruit, but scientific research and our daily lives have found that eating fruit right after a meal is not good, especially for apples with their hard skins. Eating them immediately after a meal can cause great harm to the stomach, leading to bloating and constipation. Apples are also not suitable to be eaten before a meal. When the stomach is empty before a meal, the malic acid in apples can erode the stomach lining, which is not good for your health. The best time to eat an apple is in the morning from 9 to 10 am, or half an hour after a meal.

Fruits Not to Eat When You Have a Cold

1. Pear

Fritillaria and rock sugar stewed pear is a common Chinese food therapy method to moisten the lungs and relieve coughs and phlegm. However, many people eat raw pears directly, or even eat a lot of them, only to find that their cough gets worse. Raw pears are sweet and slightly sour, and can clear heat, generate fluids, moisten dryness, transform phlegm, and detoxify alcohol. However, raw pears are a cold-natured fruit and should not be eaten raw during a cold, as it can lead to more phlegm and a worse cough. If you want to eat pears, they should be stewed first to remove their cold nature.

Wang's Stewed Pear

2. Orange

Some people believe that oranges can relieve coughs and phlegm, so they eat more of them when they have a cold. In fact, the orange peel does have the effect of relieving coughs and transforming phlegm, but the orange pulp itself generates heat, gathers dampness, and produces phlegm. Oranges are cold-natured, and eating them will make the cough worse. Consuming too many cold foods can damage the spleen and stomach, reduce their function, gather dampness and produce phlegm, which is not conducive to recovery from illness. Therefore, it is best not to eat too many citrus fruits when you have a cough. If you really want to eat oranges when you have a cold, you can roast the whole orange before eating it.

Fruits Not to Eat During Pregnancy

1. Hawthorn

After becoming pregnant, women often experience fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite, and they tend to like to eat sour and sweet fruits. Hawthorn, with its sweet and sour taste, is a favorite for many pregnant women. However, hawthorn has the effect of promoting qi, invigorating blood, and resolving stasis, and it also has a stimulating effect on the uterus, causing it to contract. If a pregnant woman consumes large amounts of hawthorn and its products during pregnancy, it can easily lead to miscarriage. However, this property of hawthorn can be used to treat postpartum abdominal pain from blood stasis, lochiorrhea, dysmenorrhea, or amenorrhea.

Hawthorn Fruit Syrup

2. Papaya

Papaya is slightly cold-natured and can easily cause diarrhea or a feeling of coldness, so it is not suitable for pregnant women to eat foods that are too cold. In addition, papaya contains female hormones, which can easily interfere with hormonal changes in a pregnant woman's body. This is especially true for green papaya, which pregnant women should completely avoid, as it is not only harmful to the stability of the fetus but can also lead to miscarriage. In Southeast Asian countries, locals even eat papaya as a form of contraception, which shows that papaya is not beneficial for childbirth.

3. Longan

Many expectant mothers believe that longan is a great tonic food, so they often eat longan and its products during pregnancy. However, this is a fatal misconception. Because most women experience a relative deficiency of yin and blood and the generation of internal heat after pregnancy, eating longan at this time not only fails to nourish but actually increases internal heat, leading to symptoms like spotting, abdominal pain, a feeling of heaviness in the lower abdomen, and in severe cases, can damage the fetus and cause miscarriage. Therefore, pregnant women must be careful: no matter how nourishing longan is, it must be strictly avoided during pregnancy. Especially for pregnant women who are eight months pregnant, eating longan at this time will almost inevitably lead to premature delivery or miscarriage.

Longan, Red Date, and Tremella Soup

4. Lychee

Because lychee is a warm-natured food, frequent consumption can lead to "internal heat," causing symptoms like constipation and canker sores, so pregnant women should eat lychees in moderation. The reasons for not eating lychees during pregnancy are not just this. Lychees also contain a large amount of sugar, so pregnant women with gestational diabetes must avoid them to prevent blood sugar instability, and symptoms of yin deficiency with blazing fire or yang hyperactivity. Therefore, it is best for pregnant women not to eat lychees to avoid worsening these conditions.