How to Eat Fruits the Right Way?

Anything that we choose to eat should have some nutritional value. Fruit is no exception. True that eating 5 servings of fruit a day is beneficial to weight loss and maintaining sugar balance and so on, but it is all about timing. Let's first understand how the body's digestive system works over a 24-hour period.

Let's say you eat 2 slices of toast and then some fruit. The fruit is ready to go into the intestine but the toast in the stomach is preventing it. In the meantime, the toast is getting digested using acids and the fruit comes into contact with this acidic mass and begins to spoil. If it had been eaten first, as fruits digests faster, it would've gone into the intestines without it getting spoiled with the rest of the food. This creates gas and a tendency to burp. As a result, the stomach bloats and causes a sensation of heaviness. You may have heard people complain that they want to burp after eating watermelon or that banana makes them want to empty their bladder often. This is all a result of eating fruit after a meal.

The Right Way to eat Fruit

Fruit is a great detoxifying food as well as good supply of natural sugars. Eaten the right way, fruit is extremely beneficial to the human body. A 3-day fruit fast can do a world of good by cleansing the body of toxins and helping the digestive system to slow down. Here are some tips on how to eat fruit the right way and get the most benefit out it.

• Eat fruit on an empty stomach. It can be at any time of day as long as you eat it on an empty stomach.

• After eating fruit, leave a time gap of 30 minutes before you eat any other food.

• If you've already eaten a meal, then wait for about 3 hours before you eat fruit, so as to ensure that all of the previous meal is digested before the fruit goes in.

• Try to eat fruit mostly before noon. This helps to raise blood sugar in a slow and unhurried manner. Since the digestive system has been at rest through the night, eating fruit is a gentle way of restarting it in the morning.

• Never eat fruit with other foods, only on its own.

• Do no eat fruit as dessert after a meal. Always eat it before for best nutritional results.

• Bananas and avocados are heavy fruit and you may want to avoid them first thing in the morning. Try eating these as afternoon or a midday meal as the digestive system will be more prepared for them.

• Try your best to eat only organic fruit whenever possible. It is a healthier option.

• Avoid canned, frozen and processed fruit. It contains large amounts of sugar, preservatives and other undesirable chemical additives.

These are some facts about fruit that may be new to you. But try out the tips and see if it works for you. If you've struggled with burping after eating fruit as dessert, you may wish to try eating it half an hour before meals. Whatever you choose, here's wishing you well!