A widespread myth today is that the fruit fattening if taken after meals, because it ferments in the stomach. This statement is absurd, the fruit ferments in the stomach, whether taken before or after eating. There is no scientific reason to support this assertion.

The stomach is a single cavity where all the food we’ve eaten equally mixed with gastric juices, so the fruit is not separate from other foods.
The energy that provides a food depends on its energy content of nutrients, ie carbohydrate, protein and fat. Vitamins, minerals, water and fiber are nutrients that provide energy. Fruits in general are noted for their high water content and lower fat content, I leave the avocado and coconut, so they are few calorie foods. Not all fruits contain the same amount of energy nutrients, so that an equal amount of each, not all fat the same. For example, is not the same be 100 grams to 100 grams melon banana. Such amount 31calorías involves eating melon, against 90 calories in bananas, or roughly triple. These calories will be the same if the shots before, during or after eating without exception.

The reason to recommend taking the fruit before eating or between main meals is nothing that they avoid reaching very hungry and thus better control the amounts to be ingested. In dieting or weight control, fruit is the best option as a mid-morning snack time as it decreases appetite and energy intake is generally lower than any other snack.
The order in which ingested food does not matter whether the calories are the same

If it is true that some people with weak stomach, poor digestion or gastrointestinal disease, may feel heaviness or discomfort when they take fruit for dessert. In these particular cases if it is advisable to take only fruit between meals. But these annoyances can not relate to the alleged fermenting fruit. If fruits ferment in the stomach digestive problems would all the people who tomasen after meals, but there are people who not only do not have any trouble, but feel they have not finished eating unless they take a piece of fruit as dessert. Another case of people who feel a desire to make something sweet after dinner, there’s nothing better than to leave the fruit to take it at the time, without running the risk of using any product less healthy and more calories, as some candy or chocolate.
In any case, we can not forget to take 3 pieces of fruit a day, whether taken between meals or after meals, so as to bring out a healthy and balanced diet promotes our health.
The calories provided by a food are the same whatever the time or the time taken. That is, the same amount of food, calories and the metabolism of any of them is the same as the order is taken is taken.

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