Who can't eat persimmons?

Who can't eat persimmons? I believe many friends are very concerned about this question. Let me answer it for you below.

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Who can't eat persimmons?

There are many benefits to eating persimmons. They can be eaten by the general population, and are especially suitable for people with dry stools, hypertension, thyroid disease, and long-term drinkers. However, some people should not eat them and need to be aware of this.

Who should not eat persimmons? Diabetics

Persimmons are high in sugar, mainly sucrose, glucose and fructose, which are easily absorbed after eating and increase blood sugar, which is harmful to diabetics, especially those with poor blood sugar control.

Anemia

The tannic acid in persimmons can combine with the iron in food and hinder the body's absorption of iron in food. Therefore, patients with anemia should eat less persimmons.

People with poor spleen and stomach function

Persimmons are suitable for people with normal spleen and stomach digestive function. In addition, the formation of gastric persimmon stones may be related to gastric dysfunction. Therefore, people with poor spleen and stomach function, such as diarrhea, loose stools, frail and sickly, postpartum, cold and wind-cold, chronic gastritis, delayed emptying, indigestion and other low gastric motility, and those who have undergone subtotal gastrectomy should not eat persimmons.

Other taboos of eating persimmons

Taboo 1: Eating persimmons on an empty stomach

Because persimmons contain more tannic acid and pectin, they will form lumps of varying sizes under the action of gastric acid when the stomach is empty. If these lumps cannot pass through the pylorus to reach the small intestine, they will be retained in the stomach to form gastric persimmon stones. Small gastric persimmon stones are initially like apricot kernels, but will grow larger and larger.

If gastric persimmon stones cannot be excreted naturally, they will cause digestive tract obstruction, severe upper abdominal pain, vomiting, and even vomiting blood. Gastric persimmon stones as big as fists have been found during surgery. If the stomach has a "bottom", the formation of gastric persimmon stones can be avoided.

Persimmons should be eaten after meals when stomach acid is less.

Taboo 2: Don’t eat persimmon peel

Some people feel that eating persimmons while chewing the persimmon skin tastes better than eating persimmons alone. In fact, this way of eating is unscientific.

Because most of the tannins in persimmons are concentrated in the skin, it is impossible to remove all the tannins when the persimmons are de-astringent. If the persimmons are eaten with the skin, it is more likely to form gastric persimmon stones, especially when the de-astringency process is not perfect, the skin contains more tannins.

Taboo 3: Eating together

Do not eat it with high-protein foods such as crab, fish, shrimp, etc.

In traditional Chinese medicine, crabs and persimmons are both cold foods, so they cannot be eaten together.

From the perspective of modern medicine, crabs, fish, and shrimps that contain high levels of protein are easily coagulated into blocks under the action of tannic acid, i.e., gastric persimmon stones. Therefore, persimmons cannot be eaten with sweet potatoes or spinach.

After eating persimmons, it is also not advisable to eat high-acid foods such as hawthorn.