What are the benefits and dietary contraindications of pears? Can pregnant women eat them? Seven types of people should not eat them

The pear, also known as the large duck pear, is a relatively common fruit throughout China. Because it is sweet and juicy and highly nutritious, regular consumption can help with digestion, clear heat and relieve cough, which is why it is deeply loved by people. So can pregnant women eat pears? What benefits are there? What are the benefits and dietary contraindications? These seven types of people should not eat them!

1. Can pregnant women eat pears?

Pregnant women can eat pears during pregnancy, but they should not eat too many. Generally, one a day is enough, especially autumn pears, because pears are cold in nature and eating too many will be counterproductive.

1. Benefits of each part of the pear for pregnant women:

(1) Pear fruit: It promotes body fluid production, moistens dryness, clears heat, and resolves phlegm. It is suitable for thirst caused by fluid damage from febrile disease, diabetes-like thirst, heat cough, phlegm-heat mania, dysphagia, thirst with loss of voice, red swollen painful eyes, and indigestion.

(2) Pear peel: It clears the heart, moistens the lungs, reduces internal heat, promotes body fluid production, nourishes the kidneys, and replenishes yin. The roots, branches, leaves, and flowers have the effects of moistening the lungs, resolving phlegm, clearing heat, and detoxifying.

(3) Pear seeds: Pear seeds contain lignin, an insoluble fiber that can dissolve in the intestines and form a gelatinous film that can bind with cholesterol in the intestines and be excreted. Pears contain boron, which can help prevent osteoporosis in women. When boron is sufficient, memory, attention, and mental acuity improve.

2. Are pears good for the fetus if pregnant women eat them?

Yes, there are benefits. The specific benefits are as follows:

(1) Supplementing vitamins needed by the human body: It is itself rich in vitamins A, B, C, D and E. Like apples, it also contains antioxidants that can help human cells and tissues maintain a healthy state.

(2) Supplementing calcium needed by the human body: Pears can help the body purify organs and store calcium. They can also soften blood vessels and prompt the blood to deliver more calcium to the bones.

(3) Helping gastrointestinal absorption: In the hot summer, the deliciousness of pears always makes people gobble them down, but it is best to chew pears slowly when eating them so that the stomach and intestines can absorb them better.

Warm reminder: Pregnant women eating pears can bring some benefits to the body, but attention should be paid to some matters regarding the method and timing of consumption. For example, eat fewer pears before bed, peel them when eating, and at most one a day.

3. How should pregnant women eat pears?

(1) Homemade pear juice: Mothers can squeeze pears into juice and take it morning and evening, which has the effect of moistening the throat and promoting body fluid production. If hawthorn is added to the pear juice, it can also promote gastric juice secretion, aid digestion and harmonize the stomach, and improve loss of appetite in spring.

(2) Steamed pear with rock sugar: Mothers can make a steamed pear with rock sugar. This dessert can nourish yin and moisten the lungs, relieve cough and eliminate phlegm, and has a good moisturizing and protective effect on the throat. And “pear paste candy” made by simmering pears with honey has a clear effect on patients suffering from long-term cough due to lung heat.

(3) Pear soup: If pregnant women have lung deficiency, asthma, cough, and weakness in autumn, they can try this mild pear milk soup. The specific method for this food is to prepare 1 autumn pear, 200 milliliters of milk, 10 grams of rice flour, and an excess of white sugar. Peel and core the autumn pear and cut it into small pieces, add a small amount of clean water and boil until soft, season with white sugar, then mix into warm milk and rice flour and stir evenly.

(4) Pear soup: After peeling the pear, simmer it together with red dates, radish, mung beans, and so on. Drink the soup and eat the relevant ingredients, and the effects of treating illness and preserving health will be better.

2. What are the benefits and dietary contraindications of pears?

1. What are the benefits of eating pears?

(1) Reducing the chance of catching a cold

People who eat more pears have a much lower chance of catching a cold than those who do not eat pears or eat few pears. Therefore, some scientists and physicians call pears an “all-around healthy fruit” or a “general practitioner.” Now that air pollution is relatively serious, eating more pears can improve the respiratory system and lung function and protect the lungs from the effects of dust and smoke in the air.

(2) Protecting the heart

Pears are rich in B vitamins, which can protect the heart, reduce fatigue, enhance myocardial vitality, and lower blood pressure.

(3) Increasing appetite

Pears contain relatively many saccharides and various vitamins, are easily absorbed by the human body, increase appetite, and have a protective effect on the liver.

(4) Clearing heat and calming the mind

Pears are cool in nature and can clear heat and calm the mind. Regular consumption can restore blood pressure to normal and improve symptoms such as dizziness and blurred vision.

(5) Preventing and fighting cancer

Eating pears can prevent atherosclerosis and inhibit the formation of the carcinogen nitrosamine, thereby preventing and fighting cancer.

(6) Relieving constipation

When eating a pear, the tongue feels a rough sensation. This is because stone cells such as lignin and fiber gather together, which can stimulate the intestinal tract and relieve constipation.

(7) Preventing osteoporosis

Pear seeds contain lignin, an insoluble fiber that can dissolve in the intestines and form a gelatinous film that can bind with cholesterol in the intestines and be excreted. Pears contain boron, which can help prevent osteoporosis in women.

2. Who should not eat them?

(1) Pears are somewhat cold in nature and promote dampness. Eating too many can harm the spleen and stomach, so people with spleen-stomach deficiency cold and those who fear cold foods should eat less.

(2) Pears contain relatively much fruit acid, so people with high stomach acid should not eat too many.

(3) Pears have a diuretic effect, so people who frequently urinate at night should eat fewer pears before bed.

(4) Patients with blood deficiency, aversion to cold, diarrhea, and cold hands and feet should not eat many pears, and it is best to cook them before eating to prevent worsening of damp-cold symptoms.

(5) Pears contain a high amount of sugar, so people with diabetes should be cautious.

(6) Pears contain much fruit acid and should not be used together with alkaline drugs such as aminophylline and baking soda. Pears should not be eaten with crabs to prevent diarrhea.

(7) Those using them to relieve cough and resolve phlegm should not choose sweet pears with too high a sugar content.

3. What should they not be eaten with?

(1) Pear + boiled water: Causes diarrhea. Pears are sweet and cold in nature. Eating pears and drinking boiled water will inevitably cause diarrhea, because this is caused by the stimulation of the intestinal tract by one cold and one hot substance. Therefore, first avoid eating too many, second avoid eating them with greasy things, and third avoid mixing cold and hot foods.

(2) Pear + crab: Affects gastrointestinal digestion. In “Principles of Correct Diet” there is a statement that “persimmons and pears should not be eaten with crabs.” Because pears are cold and cool in nature and crabs are also cold and purgative, eating the two together harms the stomach and intestines.

(3) Pear + white radish: Affects the thyroid. When radish is eaten together with fruits rich in plant pigments such as pears and grapes, after digestion and decomposition by the stomach and intestines, substances that inhibit thyroid function can be produced, inducing goiter.

(4) Pear + mutton: Abdominal bloating and stomach pain. Mutton and pears are incompatible. Some enzymes in pears can decompose the enzymes in mutton, hindering digestion and causing indigestion, abdominal bloating, stomach pain, and other symptoms.

4. What is good to eat them with?

(1) White fungus + snow pear + Sichuan fritillary. Snow pear and white fungus both have the effects of nourishing yin, moistening the lungs, and treating dry cough with little phlegm; Sichuan fritillary also has the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving cough. When snow pear, white fungus, and Sichuan fritillary are used together, the effect is especially good, with a significant effect on treating patients with lingering cough that does not heal.

(2) Pear + rock sugar. Pears can promote appetite, help digestion, and have diuretic, laxative, and fever-reducing effects, with effects such as moistening the lungs and clearing heat, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and promoting body fluid production and quenching thirst. If pears are eaten with rock sugar, their nutrition is even richer, with the effects of moistening the lungs and detoxifying, mainly treating cold cough and acute bronchitis.

(3) Pear + ginger juice + honey

Pears can promote appetite and help digestion and can be used to supplement water and nutrition during high fever. If eaten with ginger juice and honey, they have a certain effect on cough with much phlegm.