I recently received an enquiry from a potential client who also sent me a diet sheet. It looked really very complete but one thing I spotted straightaway was the inclusion of fruit with the meal – usually after as a dessert.
Another enquirer complained about bloating in the mornings after eating “about 3 spoons of bifidus organic plain yoghurt … on fruit”
In Ayurvedic nutrition – based on a system over 5000 years old – it is considered better to eat fruit alone or leave it alone. There are scientific reasons for this.
Fruit digests much more quickly than other food and should be free to leave the stomach quickly. If you mix it with other foods it tends to ferment because digestion is delayed. So it’s better to eat fruit away from food. If you do have it served with a meal, (I know this happens a lot with airline meals) either eat it first and then wait for a few minutes before starting to eat the rest of the food or keep it for eating later.
As regards the bloating I suggested experimenting having the fruit in the morning without the yogurt for at least a week and observing how the body feels. Though there may be other factors at work, the digestive system can only benefit from having a lighter load to deal with.
