Eating some fruits properly by pregnant women can not only increase nutrition, help digestion and supplement vitamins and minerals, but also have some special medical functions, which are very helpful to the health of pregnant women. Pregnant women should eat more fruits. The following fruits are especially recommended here.

Autumn pear-clearing heat and lowering blood pressure

Autumn pear, known as "Hundred Fruits School", is one of the oldest fruit trees in China. Crisp and juicy, sweet and refreshing, mellow and pleasant. Sweet, cold and slightly sour, it has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, moistening throat and lowering blood pressure, clearing away heart fire and moistening lung, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, quenching thirst and promoting fluid production, and can be used for treating pregnancy edema and pregnancy hypertension. It also has the effects of calming the nerves, nourishing the heart, protecting the liver, diminishing inflammation and relieving pain, and preventing and treating lung infection and hepatitis. Removing the core of raw pear, filling it with rock sugar 10g, Fritillaria 5g and proper amount of water, stewing with slow fire and eating pear with soup can prevent and treat diseases such as exogenous cold, cough and excessive phlegm.

Persimmons moisten the lungs and relieve constipation.

Persimmon juice is sweet and is a cheap fruit. Every100g of persimmon contains 20g of sugar, 0.7g of protein, 0. 1 g of fat and 49.7mg of iodine, and is suitable for treating diseases such as hypertension, chronic bronchitis, arteriosclerosis, hemorrhoids, hematochezia and constipation. Persimmon stems and leaves are both traditional Chinese medicines. Persimmon can reduce adverse reactions and stop vomiting, and treat hiccups and belching. Persimmon leaves have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, hemostatic and antihypertensive effects, and are commonly used folk herbs. Its nutritional and medicinal value is suitable for pregnant women to eat in moderation. In particular, pregnant women with pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome can "eat one thing and two things".

Citrus-A Treasure of Vitamins

There are many kinds of citrus, such as sweet orange, south orange, seedless orange and grapefruit. They all have the advantages of rich nutrition and good health. Its juice is rich in citric acid, amino acids, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients, and it is a favorite food for pregnant women. 500 grams of oranges contain c250 mg of vitamin C. Eating oranges regularly can prevent scurvy and night blindness.

However, citrus is warm and sweet, which can replenish yang and benefit qi. Excessive consumption is easy to cause dryness and heat, causing people to get angry, resulting in stomatitis, periodontitis and pharyngitis. After eating a large amount of citrus for one or more times, the carotene in the body will increase obviously, and the liver has no time to convert carotene into vitamin A, so that the carotene in the skin is deposited, which leads to jaundice-like changes in the skin, especially in the hands and soles, and is often accompanied by nausea and vomiting.

Pregnant women should not eat more than three oranges a day, and the total weight should be less than 250 grams.

Apple-Intelligence and Asthma Prevention

Apples are called "educational fruits" and "memory fruits", and "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." Proverbs This is because it is not only rich in trace elements such as zinc, but also rich in nutrients such as lipids, carbohydrates and multivitamins, especially the high content of fine fiber, which is beneficial to the development of hippocampus on the edge of fetal cerebral cortex and to the postnatal memory of fetus. Moreover, some surveys have found that women who eat more apples during pregnancy can greatly reduce the probability of childhood asthma.

Pregnant women can meet the demand for zinc by eating 1~2 apples a day.

Fig-antidiarrheal and breast-promoting

The fruit of fig is delicious whether it is fresh or dried. Rich in amino acids, organic acids, magnesium, manganese, copper, zinc, boron, vitamins and other nutrients. It is not only a fruit with high nutritional value, but also a good medicine blindly. Sweet and sour, it has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, stopping diarrhea and promoting lactation, especially for hemorrhoids, hematochezia, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, sore throat and dry breast. Pregnant women are most prone to hemorrhoids, so they should eat them often.

Fruits that pregnant women eat little or not.

Fruits unsuitable for pregnant women.

longan

Longan is a good tonic, but it should be eaten less or not during pregnancy, because it is warm and hot. Pregnant women are prone to yin deficiency and internal heat after pregnancy, and eating longan will cause fever, which will lead to dry stool, dry mouth and fetal fever, which will easily lead to threatened abortion symptoms such as vaginal bleeding and abdominal pain.

apricot tree

Apricot is sour and hot, and has the effect of preventing miscarriage. Because of the heavy fetal fever during pregnancy, the principle of "clearing before delivery" should generally be followed, and apricot's heat and its abortion-prone characteristics are taboo for pregnant women and should not be eaten.

There are other fruits, such as litchi, which are easy to cause dry stool; Watermelon, melon, cantaloupe and peach-easy to cause diarrhea; Jackfruit, durian-easy to cause loss of appetite; Fresh bayberry-easy to cause hyperacidity, not suitable for eating.