The dietary consumption of residents in our country has formed a convention of eating fruit after meals, whether in the serving order of banquets or the living habits of most people. Nutrition experts believe that eating fruit after meals is actually a dietary misconception, and this habit is actually detrimental to health, easily leading to the occurrence of being overweight and obesity.
Some nutrition experts recently stated at the First China Western Academic Forum on Nutrition, Health, and Sub-health in Chongqing that one of the main problems affecting the health of our residents is excessive calorie intake. Eating fruit after meals is often on the basis of being full or overeating, and then adding more food, and the calories from this part are almost entirely stored. Nutritionists suggest that based on the analysis of the components of fruits themselves and the characteristics of the body's digestion and absorption, it is recommended that adults should eat fruit before each meal (except for fruits that are not suitable to be eaten before meals, such as persimmons). Children are in a period of physical growth, and some women belong to the "spleen and stomach deficiency and cold" constitution in traditional Chinese medicine, and are not suitable or do not adapt to eating fruit before meals. This group of people can add fruit once between two meals, and not eat fruit immediately after meals.