Apples can be eaten after meals, but not immediately. It is more appropriate to wait for an hour after dinner. In fact, not only apples, but also other fruits should not be eaten immediately after meals.

If you eat fruit immediately after a meal, it will easily lead to overweight and obesity. Taking fruit as dessert after meals, the organic acids in it will combine with minerals in other foods, which will affect the digestion and absorption of the body; Pectin in fruit can absorb water and increase the water content of food in gastrointestinal tract, so eating fruit immediately after meals will also increase the burden of gastrointestinal tract.

The correct time to eat fruit is 65438+ 0 hours before meals (except persimmons).

Many ingredients in fruit are water-soluble, so eating before meals is beneficial to the absorption of essential nutrients.

Secondly, fruit is a low-calorie food, and its average calorie is only 1/4 of that of pasta with the same weight. Eating low-calorie food first makes it easier to grasp the total calorie intake of a meal.

Third, many fruits themselves are easily oxidized and corrupted. Eating fruit first can shorten its residence time in the stomach and reduce its oxidative corruption.

Eat fruit immediately after satiety. The fructose contained in it can't enter the intestine in time, and it will ferment in the stomach to produce organic acids, causing abdominal distension and diarrhea, so eat fruit one hour after meals.