Are Fruits To Be Really Eaten Before Meals?
@SIMPLYD (90722)
Philippines
October 22, 2018 3:45am CST
There is a circulating post at Fb that fruits should be eaten before meals and that eating them after meals would make them rot in the stomach.
So, I did my reading from health experts' sites .
Dr. Shanker Pasupathy , Consultant, Department of Upper GI & Bariatric Surgery, Singapore General Hospital (SGH), a member of the SingHealth group, says that fruits can be eaten at any time and along with other foods. The body has digestive enzymes that helps digest mixed foods. Other than that it has hydrochloric acid that kills bacteria before it can reproduce, thus fermentation cannot take place inside the stomach.
You see, it is our custom at home to always eat fruits as dessert, after our main meals. Doing that has never made my stomach churn or ache at all. I also eat fruits anytime.
Specially mangoes, like that in the picture in google, I love eating them after meals.
Really, nowadays you have to be discerning and make some research whenever posts like this circulates.
Do you also eat fruits as your dessert after a meal?
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42 responses
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
23 Oct 18
I actually would always try to research when a post about health or foods is on Fb. We really have to be discerning in what to believe in some posts in fb.
@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
22 Oct 18
We've been eating fruits before eating our meal. Eating fruit after meal leaves a sour aftertaste. We've been eating fruits before meals for quite sometime already and friends whom I taught about this were happy and said that they feel light on the stomach eating fruit before meals.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
22 Oct 18
@sunrisefan That's good that it's what make you feel lighter. Though, I can eat it at anytime I like.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
22 Oct 18
Oh, so you are one of those who advocates eating fruits before meal. Is there a scientific explanation into thinking that it is better to be eaten before meals @sunrisefan?
Eating a fruit after meal doesn't give me a sour taste though.
Well, maybe that is why you are still health yand look younger even when you say that you are already 95? 
I might as well eat fruits before meal.
I might as well eat fruits before meal.2 people like this
@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
22 Oct 18
@SIMPLYD There's a scientific reason for that, Ms. LT, but I forgot what it was. What I'm sure is that it's very okay with us eating fruit ahead of the meal.
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@rsa101 (37932)
• Philippines
22 Oct 18
I also read about that too. I am confused because we grew up and learned to eat fruits right after the main meal is done. It acts as our dessert to finish a meal. And we have been doing that for so long that I really do not know if it has taken its toll on us eating fruits after every meal.
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@rsa101 (37932)
• Philippines
22 Oct 18
@SIMPLYD So far I haven't had any adverse reaction after eating that after a meal. Unless the fruit is already starting to decay then I guess we will have a reaction on it. But if it is fresh fruit I never experience anything that affects me at all.
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@Nickzter1331 (4229)
• Philippines
22 Oct 18
Actually., for me. I eat fruits after i ate my meals.. hehe.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
22 Oct 18
Children can really be so excited when they see fruits that are their favorite. So much so, that if they see it already, they will eat it before meals. Well, they're healthy to eat so there's no problem.
Though, they would eat less of the main meal already.
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@arunima25 (85265)
• Bangalore, India
23 Oct 18
I eat fruits as dessert after meals and I also take them as stand alone snacks.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
25 Oct 18
@arunima25 Is that so? I think I have read that all fruits are alkaline not acidic. Though in my experience, when I eat pineapple on an empty stomach, it aches.
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@arunima25 (85265)
• Bangalore, India
24 Oct 18
@SIMPLYD I avoid certain citric fruits on empty stomach. They cause acidity.
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@freelancermariagrace (27219)
• Philippines
22 Oct 18
Not every day since it’s also packed with sugar. But yes, I usually eat it after a meal.
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@Michellekidwell (29260)
• Sonora, California
22 Oct 18
I eat fruits at all times of day and night! I love fruits!
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@popciclecold (35085)
• United States
23 Oct 18
@SIMPLYD Yeah, we eat it like desert.
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@velvet53 (22528)
• Palisade, Colorado
23 Oct 18
@SIMPLYD I agree with you. I pretty much eat what I want and when I want to. I have breakfast for supper and pizza or something like that for breakfast. Shucks, it is our stomachs and as long as what we eat or when we eat it isn't upsetting our stomachs then let's keep doing what we have for years.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16531)
• China
29 Oct 18
I amn't in the habit of eating fruits as the dessert after a meal ,except eating an apple a day.However we are told not to eat persimmon on an empty stomach,or else you may get gastrolithiasis.
Portal Dict Q & A ??:e.uuuwell.com [Intro] Overview: intake of certain plants or certain ingredients or swallowed hair minerals such as calcium carbonate, barium, bismuth condensation agent in the formation of gastric foreign body, known as gastrolithi
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16531)
• China
30 Oct 18
@SIMPLYD According to the article above,the persimmom contains tannic acid that reacts with gastric acid.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
23 Oct 18
Yes, i do that too. Specially that at the office, i take an early lunch during snacktime at 10:00. So much so, that at 12,:00 to 1:00, our lunctime, I just would eat a fruit , i bring to the office.
Really, you don't eat dessert after a meal. I am used to eating any sweet thing for dessert, even if i am a bit full. it could. be a candy or coffee (I have until 12:00 pm for coffee) but when at home it's a fruit.
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