Eating apples before eating is conducive to weight control

A friend recently asked "Are you eating before or after a meal?" The simple answer to the question can be ended with the word "casually". However, it is really meaningful to carefully investigate this matter.

First of all, eating apples before meals is beneficial to weight control. It is common in many places to say “eat more vegetables and fruits”, which is infallible. However, it often gives people an illusion that fruits, like vegetables, are low in energy. In fact, the fruit's energy is still quite considerable.

Taking a medium-sized Red Fuji apple as an example, the weight is about 250 grams, and the edible portion is 85%. The energy provided per hectogram is 45 kcal, and the sugar content per 100 grams is 9.6 grams (data from "Chinese food". Ingredient List 2004 Edition), the energy provided by such a Red Fuji apple is a very simple arithmetic problem. The sugar is about 20 grams, and the energy is about 96 kcal, which is equivalent to a bowl of rice. Energy slightly! In this way, before the meal, an apple almost became a bowl of rice before dinner. How can you eat it in accordance with normal weight, unless you eat it? Therefore, before the meal, the apple is beneficial to the control of food intake. If the reduced amount of food is a piece of cake, a spare rib, a fried chicken wing, then it is very helpful to control the weight!

Of course, in addition to apples, eating a bunch of grapes, a banana, a jujube, etc. before meals are all conducive to weight control.

Although eating apples before meals helps control weight, it does not mean that eating apples before meals can certainly lose weight. If your three meals are still eating as much as before, it does not mean that "Apple can only eat before meals." After dinner, if there is more room in the stomach for you to easily eat an apple without feeling bracing, then eating after eating is not a bad idea. Or some people themselves regard apples as a part of a meal, and there is no problem.

My own common practice for eating apples and most fruits is to eat after meals. To be exact, it is to eat as snacks between meals (for example, around 10 am or 3 pm). Because my own food is small and my weight is normal, I need to eat more meals to increase my daily energy and nutrient intake. So I seldom eat apples before dinner to reduce appetite; after dinner It will not immediately eat fruit, otherwise it will feel support. In this way, apples and other fruits are particularly suitable for me as snacks between meals, and at the same time they can supplement one-day nutrients and energy.

Therefore, the question of whether “eat apples before eating or eating after meals?” depends on the circumstances of the individual. There is no golden rule at all. When other fruits are eaten in the end, they must be based on their own circumstances.