Re: Fruit, does it need stomach acid?

Self-Experimenting again. That´s us :-)

I think people with gut problems (as me) should stay away of bad food combining, i.e. meat with fruits, not matter how many nice enzimes that fruit has. Fruit ferments fast and meat takes longer. So there will be some trouble in your gut with 2 things fermenting at a different rate.

Another nice way to improve digestions is bitters. They say olives are good to eat before food. I´m not so sure, as store brought olives are not bitter anymore. But Catalunyian olives "alberquina" yes they are bitter and great to start meals.

The bitter makes your digestion fluids start working so once the rest of the food reach the gut, there is a nice mix in there to do their job.

If you can´t find these olives then you could try a herbal bitter tea such as dandelion, etc.

Fruit is important for vits, enzimes.... but they should be eaten out of the meals. If I eat in "la merienda" too much fruit I will get pain, bloated or discomfort. So we don´t tolerate big quantities of fruit.

So let's do fruits in small cuantities and out of meals.

Probably is the fructose in the fruits making all the trouble if we have SIBO/candida or a similar thing.

I love raw honey too, but only tolerate small quantities. Honey is srong and acidic. And high in fructose too.

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