Fruits Right after Dinner

[s1301950]

Have you guys heard about that it's not healthy to eat fruits right after dinner? you should wait for 30 minutes or so?

Sounds pretty absurd and unscientific to me.

[shannn]

You should actually eat fruits before dinner if you want to reduce fat uptake by your body.

Fructose helps reduce the amount of fat taken up by the body if consumed before a meal :cheesygri
Just don't eat too many fruits...or too much fat during your meal

This has been shown in a few studies (and was in a couple of my textbooks)

[craftsman]

Have you guys heard about that it's not healthy to eat fruits right after dinner? you should wait for 30 minutes or so?

Sounds pretty absurd and unscientific to me.

Must have been a study paid for by the pastry industry ;)

[EchoAngel911]

where is the study for this?

[s1301950]

where is the study for this?

Research by my inlaws, which basically a digest from recent chinese newspapers and magazines.

[BongoBong]

Have you guys heard about that it's not healthy to eat fruits right after dinner? you should wait for 30 minutes or so?

Sounds pretty absurd and unscientific to me.

What exactly do you mean by unhealthy?

[ihsn]

Yes, I heard that too.

I read in a popular health magazine and some books that fruits should be had when you feel hungry, as a snack; and if you are considering to have them during meals, eat fruits only after 30 minutes or so.

[EchoAngel911]

then it guess like the saying ...

don't eat desserts for dinner?

[pigurd]

i did this for most of high school and university.. aaaa

what is unhealthy about it though? does it just make you fatter? my physique is more sexier now, wonder if its cause i havent been eating fruits after dinner... only as snacks throughout the day

[EchoAngel911]

i did this for most of high school and university.. aaaa

what is unhealthy about it though? does it just make you fatter? my physique is more sexier now, wonder if its cause i havent been eating fruits after dinner... only as snacks throughout the day

sexier eh? haven't you been eating a lot of food recently ...

[ShoppingMirry]

I've been reading up on natural health and stuff lately, and the main idea is that fresh fruits should be eaten on an empty stomach so that your body can easily absorb the nutrients and enzymes. Many fruits contain enzymes beneficial for us that have a short life span once they've been cut open.
If your stomach is full of food, the enzymes will become inactive when the fruit is finally digested.

I think there is no harm in eating fruit after dinner, but you won't be absorbing as many nutrients as you would if you ate them before dinner.

[felixdd]

I've been reading up on natural health and stuff lately, and the main idea is that fresh fruits should be eaten on an empty stomach so that your body can easily absorb the nutrients and enzymes. Many fruits contain enzymes beneficial for us that have a short life span once they've been cut open.
If your stomach is full of food, the enzymes will become inactive when the fruit is finally digested.

I think there is no harm in eating fruit after dinner, but you won't be absorbing as many nutrients as you would if you ate them before dinner.

If that's the reason, then I'm sorry then the magazines are wrong.

Your stomach acid denatures (read: changes the configuration of the molecule) most ingested enzymes so that they become inactivated long before they reach the small intestine (where absorption occurs). So even before these "enzymes" reach the stage of absorption, they're already inactivated it.

Not to mention that once said "enzymes" reach the small intestines, your body's own enzymes break down any proteinaceous material down to their basic amino acid constituents. Enzymes are proteins, and these "enzymes" from the fruit will be broken down into their basic building blocks before being absorbed. The human body cannot absorb ingested enzymes in their whole, unaltered form. If they could, we'd have made wonder drugs that cure cancer ages ago by making enzymes that we ingest and directly target cancer cells.

As for other nutritional substances in the fruit, specifically vitamins, altering the fat or acidity of your bowel contents can affect the rate of absorption. But your body contains 7 meters of small bowel and the lumen is so corrugated it has a surface area of a tennis court. So whether you spread your apple as a thin film on a tennis court, or mix it up with your meal and then spread it over the same tennis court, the moral of the story is that there is plenty of bowel to absorb all that needs to be absorbed, faster or slower.

[pigurd]

mmm ms hoover, which one is oral?

[gordholio]

I don't believe that eating fruit after supper is unhealthy, just perhaps not as healthy as before. Anyways, there's no rule that you have to eat fruit at supper time anyways.