Eat fruit before or after meals?

There are many benefits that fruits bring us, tremendously nutritious and healthy foods that contain a great diversity of essential nutrients and essential for our body.

They provide us with vitamins and minerals, essential nutrients in a healthy and balanced diet. Like each of them contain interesting benefits for our health, being useful in the prevention of cancer (for its content in antioxidants and fibers), cholesterol and high triglycerides, obesity and overweight ...

But it is true that, in most cases, there are many people who tend to ask themselves the following question: When is it better to eat the fruit? Before or after meals?.

When to eat the fruit?

It is true that the choice to eat the fruit before or after meals will depend, from the start, on the habits or needs that each person may have.

Although it is true that from a nutritional as well as a medical point of view, it is best to eat fruit before meals, it is likely that we also find some benefits when eating fruit after meals.

Why eat the fruit before meals?

It provides satietyThanks to its high fiber content, eating fruit before meals will help to satisfy our appetite, which in turn will prevent an excessive subsequent intake of food.
Recommended to avoid digestive discomfort: when fruits are eaten after a meal, fermentation of sugars is more likely to occur and our stomach is not able to digest them correctly, which in turn generates digestive discomfort (such as bloating, gas and stomach pain) .
It helps to make digestion better: the fruit is rich in acidic substances capable of stimulating the secretions of our stomach, which in turn helps to make digestion well.

Therefore, we find a recommended healthy choice: it is better to always eat the fruit before meals.

Of course, we should not confuse that digestive fruits consumed before meals is more advisable to eat fruit is harmful, since the fruit is always beneficial.

However, it is the moment chosen when these nutritional properties may or may not be greater.

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