Can pregnant women eat tangerines?

Expectant mothers tend to be more greedy and also like new and novel foods. So can pregnant women eat tangerines?

Pregnant women should eat more fruits

In fact, pregnant women should eat more fruits, but not too much! Pregnant women should pay attention to supplementing their diet with enough protein. Sugar orange, also known as October orange. It is native to Guangning and Sihui, and is one of the main citrus varieties grown there. It is named because it tastes as sweet as sugar. The authentic sugar oranges are especially produced in Huangtian Town, Sihui City. They are delicious and extremely sweet, without residue, and have a delicate taste. They are really top-quality!

Tangerine is a traditional local specialty of Deqing, Guangning and Sihui. It is also a famous and excellent variety of citrus. It was praised by Yangcheng Evening News as "a unique Tangerine". Tangerine fruit is oblate, with a tumor-like protrusion on the top, a sunken navel end, orange-yellow color, thin wall, and easy to peel. The fruit shape index is 0.78, the weight of a single fruit is 62-86 grams, the edible rate is 71%, and the soluble solids are 11%. Every 100 ml contains 10.55 grams of total sugar and 0.35 grams of fruit acid. The flesh is crisp, juicy, slag-free, and sweet. After eating, it is refreshing and intriguing. This product is well-known both at home and abroad. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was sold in large quantities in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong and Macao.

What foods can't pregnant women eat?

Pregnant women, as a special group of people, should not only pay attention to strengthening nutrition and eating nutritious food in moderation, but also pay great attention to dietary structure, dietary cooking, dietary hygiene and food selection. During pregnancy, the baby's organs continue to develop and need adequate nutrition. If you do not pay attention to balanced nutrition during pregnancy, not only will the fetus grow sluggishly and be dysplastic, but the mother will also be weaker after delivery. Increasing nutrition does not mean eating more, but paying attention to balanced nutrition in food. Therefore, it is very important to know what foods you cannot eat during pregnancy.

1. Avoid high-fat diet

If a pregnant woman has a high-fat diet for a long time, it will inevitably increase the risk of her daughter suffering from reproductive system cancer. Eating high-fat foods for a long time will increase the concentration of bile acid and neutral cholesterol in the large intestine. At the same time, high-fat foods can increase the synthesis of prolactin, promote the occurrence of breast cancer, and are not good for the health of mother and baby.

2. Avoid high-protein diet

A high-protein diet during pregnancy will affect the appetite of pregnant women and increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract. A large amount of harmful substances such as hydrogen sulfide and histamine can be produced in the human body, which can easily cause abdominal distension, loss of appetite, dizziness, fatigue and other phenomena.

3. Avoid high-sugar diet

Pregnant women with high blood sugar levels were three times more likely to give birth to a heavy-weight baby, seven times more likely to have congenital malformations, and twice as likely to have pregnancy toxemia or need cesarean sections than those with low blood sugar levels. On the other hand, high blood sugar levels can increase the burden on pregnant women's kidneys, which is not conducive to pregnancy care.

4. Avoid high calcium diet

Pregnant women blindly follow a high-calcium diet, drink a lot of milk, and take calcium tablets and vitamin D, which is harmful to the fetus. Nutritionists believe that if pregnant women take too much calcium, the fetus may suffer from hypercalcemia. After birth, the baby's fontanelle will close too early, the jawbone will become wide and protruding, etc., which is not conducive to healthy growth and development.

Baby Tips

Babies should not eat too much orange juice. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that oranges are warm in nature. If you eat a lot of oranges in a short period of time, you will experience symptoms of "getting angry" such as mouth sores, dry throat and sore throat, and constipation. Therefore, you should not eat too much. Oranges are also rich in fruit acid. Eating them on an empty stomach will cause adverse stimulation to the digestive tract mucosa. Friends with digestive tract ulcers should pay special attention. In addition, do not feed your baby too many oranges or orange juice. This is because infants and young children have imperfect liver function. When they eat too many oranges, the liver cannot convert too much carotene in the body into vitamin A, and "carotenemia" will come to the door. In mild cases, it only manifests as yellow skin color, and in severe cases, there may be symptoms such as anorexia and irritability. Once the above situation occurs, you should immediately stop eating foods rich in carotene, encourage the child to drink more water, and go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible if necessary.

Do not feed your baby tangerines in winter: Although tangerines are warm in nature, eating tangerines in winter will cause the baby to be "directly affected by the cold evil" due to the low temperature, leading to vomiting and diarrhea, which is very common in winter. Once your baby has vomiting and diarrhea after eating tangerines, you need to take ginger and brown sugar water orally to warm the middle and dispel the cold and stop vomiting. If necessary, go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible.

Grilled orange peel is a good medicine. A Japanese study found that orange peel is rich in hesperidin, which has the effect of lowering blood pressure and dilating coronary arteries. During the grilling process, hesperidin and other ingredients in the orange peel can penetrate into the orange. Therefore, researchers believe that grilled oranges are a good food for preventing coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis. The specific method is to wash the orange peel and soak it in boiling water at 40℃ to 50℃ for 1 minute, then wipe it dry with a cloth and put it on the wire mesh, grill it over medium heat until the outer skin is slightly charred, and eat the orange peel and the orange peel after cooling, 3 times a day.