In the eyes of Chinese people, there is a kind of fruit that people love and hate: persimmon.
Every Mid-Autumn Festival, it is Huang Chengcheng, sweet, soft and glutinous, with charming flavor. However, it has so many taboos that if you eat it, you cannot eat many other things!
Are all the taboos about persimmons true? A doctor personally tested… … …
Dr. Liu Wanqing is an associate professor at Wayne State University in the United States. He has been engaged in scientific research and teaching in the United States for many years. At present, his scientific research focuses on pharmacogenomics, genetics of liver diseases and cancer, genomics research. Hobby is popular science.
Ingredients: A bag of crisp persimmons and various other foods.
Test 1: Eat three persimmons on an empty stomach,
It is the most famous rumor that persimmons cannot be eaten on an empty stomach. It is said that eating the wrong persimmons may kill you…
In the morning, I ate persimmons on an empty stomach, and ate three at a time without eating anything else.
Results an hour later…….
Feel intestinal peristalsis obviously accelerated a little, Chang Shuang went to a toilet.
Explanation: Eating persimmons is easy to defecate because persimmons are rich in dietary fiber.
High-fiber foods promote peristalsis of the large intestine and promote defecation. A few people, such as those with irritable bowel syndrome or other bowel diseases, can cause diarrhea, but it has nothing to do with [chills].
Persimmons and persimmons are very good sources of dietary fiber. Friends with constipation can eat one or two every day, especially on an empty stomach in the morning.
However, people with habitual diarrhea or irritable bowel syndrome should eat less.
Test 2: Persimmon + Milk
It is said that milk has a large amount of protein, and eating it with persimmons will produce a lethal substance: stomach persimmon stone.
I chopped up the persimmons, added iced milk and breakfast cereals, and made a whole bowl.
After eating for two days, the result was……
Because it was so delicious, persimmons were eaten up in advance!
Explanation: [Stomach Persimmon Stone] does exist, but it has nothing to do with milk, seafood, fasting and satiety.
Gastric persimmon stone is a kind of plant gastric stone. Besides persimmon, various high-fiber foods such as pumpkin, grape, hawthorn, celery, etc. may lead to plant gastric stone.
However, the incidence rate of this disease is extremely low, which may be less than 10,000 or even 1 in 100,000 among the general population, and has nothing to do with [cold] [phase restriction].
At present, the cause of gastric persimmon stone is unknown, but it has several risk groups:
- Small stomach volume, less gastric acid secretion and dyspepsia; Having undergone stomach surgery and significantly slowing down emptying; Advanced diabetes or impaired kidney function; Wearing respiratory aids.
Therefore, the stomach persimmon stone is not something you can get by eating a persimmon. People without these problems, don’t be afraid.
Test 3: Persimmon + Beer
This is even more amazing! It is said that when persimmons and wine are eaten together, indescribable things will happen…
After I ate it, I really couldn’t describe it, because there was nothing.
The reason for this statement may be a chemical component in persimmon: tannin.
Tannin, also known as tannic acid and tannic acid, exists in various plants and their fruits in nature and is the source of astringency in plants. It can combine with many biological macromolecules to cause precipitation, thus having [astringent] effect.
Regarding its impact on health, the literature concludes that:
In general, tannin is not found to have what toxicity and obvious disadvantages clinically. Tannin has antioxidant, anti-aging, anti-infection and other effects, and can be used to treat infection, diarrhea, scald and so on.
Moreover, tannin and alcohol do not have magical reactions that affect health. For example, wine has a large amount of tannin and alcohol.
The only thing to note is that you cannot eat too much tannin at one time.
Immature persimmons, especially persimmon skins, contain a lot of tannin. Therefore, it is better to eat less astringent persimmons, especially green persimmons.
Generally, no one will eat a lot of green persimmons…
Ultimate Experiment: Persimmon + Various Foods
I chose the most widely rumored ones: crab, autumn pear, iced beer and ice cream.
As a result… two meals in a row, delicious!
Persimmon is rich in dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals, and contains many polyphenol antioxidants. It is a very healthy seasonal fruit and has no terrible taboo in what.
In a word, if your stomach is fine, you don’t eat too astringent persimmons, and you don’t eat too much at a time, you don’t have to worry.
Don’t wronged the food because of rumors.
For this experiment, some people will surely say:
I really feel uncomfortable after eating persimmons.
You alone cannot represent the general situation.
It is true that individual cases do not represent everyone, and this is not an attempt to illustrate that food is not compatible with each other through individual cases.
These small experiments, as well as various documents, are just trying to make a simple truth: food is not as terrible as rumoured.
As early as 1935, the older generation of biochemists in our country, Mr. Zheng Ji, systematically conducted animal experiments on the so-called “Xiangke food” and personally conducted human experiments (including crabs and persimmons) with many colleagues. As a result, no evidence of adverse health was found.
More than 80 years have passed, and more and more researches have been made on food nutrition and biochemical reactions at home and abroad. Some domestic nutrition institutions and medical colleges have also made more in-depth researches on [food restriction], but no abnormalities have been found.
Science is developing, but our fear of crabs and persimmons has not decreased, and more varieties have been creatively proposed. This is really worth everyone pondering.
It is another year of autumn wind, crabs and persimmons, don’t miss it.