Best Fruit Eating Time: In modern lifestyle, we have adopted many new ways of eating. Today, be it wedding buffets or dining tables of big hotels, serving fruits as salad along with the main meal has become a status symbol. We often consider it a healthy habit and adopt it, but the ancient Indian medical system &8216;Ayurveda&8217; Issues a serious warning on this. According to Ayurveda, wrong combination of food and fruits can act like poison and not nectar for your body.
The basic principle of Ayurveda is based on Jathragni (fire of digestion). When we eat cooked food—like dal, roti or rice—it requires more time and energy to digest. On the contrary, fruits are light and soft in nature which get digested very quickly.
When we eat these two together, a contradiction is created in the stomach. Quickly digestible fruits and slow digestible grains get stuck in the stomach and instead of being digested, they start rotting. Cold or frozen fruits served in hotels make this situation worse by slowing down the digestive fire.
When food starts rotting in the stomach, instead of providing nutrients, it creates toxins in the body. Due to this wrong combination, people often have to face problems like gas, heaviness in the stomach, constipation and acidity after eating food. By continuing this habit for a long time, the body becomes home to diseases and we do not get the nutrition from the fruits for which we are eating them.
Ayurveda considers food not just a taste but a science. In this, time quantity and combination have special importance. Eating fruits with milk or curd also comes under the category of unhealthy diet which can cause skin diseases and allergies.
According to experts, to get the full benefits of fruits, they should be eaten at least one hour before or two hours after meals.
If you are serious about your health then do not make the mistake of keeping fruits and grains together in your plate. It is wise to follow these rules of Ayurveda to maintain the body’s natural healing ability.
