Are you eating your fruits wrong? Avoid these mistakes to reap maximum health benefits

As per the expert, our ancestors did not have a variety of foods, and hence the way they ate their fruit was different. “They ate fruits as their breakfast or in between meals,” wrote Neha in her Instagram post.

The expert listed the following “weird ways” we consume fruits that do not let us get their maximum benefits.

Milkshake

As per the expert, milk and fruits have different nutrient compositions, and the time required for their digestion is also different. Fruits get digested faster as compared to milk, and when we mix them, we actually allow the fruit sugar to ferment in the gut leading to gas, bloating, and other gut-related issues. “Sorry to say that your favourite fruit milkshake could be a slow poison for your body,” said Neha in her post.

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As a dessert or along with meals

You must have seen people eating fruits as a dessert or along with the meal, but according to Neha it is not a healthy habit; it is only going to up the sugar load on your body and converts it faster into fat, which then sits in your gut longer, again creating gut-related problems. Warning people who love having mangoes post meals, Neha suggested to “eat mangoes at a different time to reap all its benefits.”

Late night snack

Those who think eating fruits to satiate late-night cravings is healthy need to know that it is not. As per Neha, at night, your body doesn’t need the sugars from the fruit because you are not active. “All your body wants at night is to get rest and repair and not to process any food. The sugars from the fruit will only get stored in your body as fat and am sure you don’t want that,” said Neha.

Juices

Considering it to be healthy, people prefer having juice due to convenience. However, fruit and fruit juice are not the same thing. While fruit is a wholesome food loaded with nutrients and fiber, fruit juice is completely stripped of the most important component of the fruit, which is fiber. “Without the fiber, fruit sugar is directly absorbed into your bloodstream and is taken into the liver and this excessive sugar is then converted into fat,” said Neha.

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