Dietary adjustments for spicy food cravings during early pregnancy

It is said that sour boy and spicy girl. Many female friends always feel like eating sour or spicy food after pregnancy. Of course, these are different reactions based on the changes in their taste buds, and they cannot actually confirm whether the rumor of sour boy and spicy girl is true? In the following article, let’s understand why you want to eat spicy food in early pregnancy.

In the early stages of pregnancy, you must first ensure protein intake. You should choose foods rich in high-quality protein that are easily digestible and absorbable, such as meat, milk, eggs, fish and soy products.

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Secondly, you need to ensure the intake of minerals and vitamins in the early stages of pregnancy. Choose a variety of foods rich in nutrients such as zinc, calcium, copper, vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C and folic acid, such as meat, animal liver and kidney, sesame, milk and beans. Finally, in the early stages of pregnancy, you should pay attention to the proper intake of carbohydrates and fats. Carbohydrates that provide energy during pregnancy mainly come from sweet potatoes, potatoes, yams, sucrose and rice. Pregnant women should consume more than 150 grams of carbohydrates per day. Fat mainly comes from animal oil and edible oil. Sesame oil, soybean oil and peanut oil in edible oil are the main providers of energy and can meet the mother and fetus's needs for fatty acids. Vegetable oil is an ideal oil for cooking.

What should you pay attention to in your diet during early pregnancy?

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Dietary advice during early pregnancy

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Don't drink too much water in the early stages of pregnancy. Eat more apples, bananas, and cherry tomatoes.

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For meat, choose beef or mutton, which is safe and will make your baby healthy.

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For staple food, you should eat more whole grains, so that your baby will have a comprehensive diet and will not be picky about food, such as corn, sweet potatoes, and millet.

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Vegetables should be selected in season.

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Kelp and seaweed should also be made into soup with shrimp skin and drunk before meals (to supplement calcium and iron).

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Also, don’t forget to drink bone soup, but don’t make yourself too fat, and weigh yourself regularly.

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What fruits are good to eat during early pregnancy

apple

Apples contain a variety of vitamins and minerals, malic acid, tannins and fine fiber. Eating more apples can prevent excessive obesity and is also very helpful for fetal development. In addition, apples also have a regulating effect on gastrointestinal function. If you eat apples with the skin, it can improve both constipation and diarrhea.

What should you pay attention to in your diet during early pregnancy?

grapefruit

Grapefruit contains a lot of folic acid, while autumn pears can treat pregnancy edema and pregnancy-induced hypertension.

Tangerine

There are many varieties of tangerines, including sweet oranges, tangerines, seedless honey plums, sleeves, etc. They all have the common advantages of being rich in nutrition and valuable all over. Its juice is rich in citric acid, amino acids, carbohydrates, fat, multiple vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients, and is a food that pregnant women like to eat. 500 grams of stalks contain 250 mg of vitamin C, 2.7 mg of vitamin A, and vitamin B1, which is the highest among fruits. Calcium is the highest mineral content in tangerines, and their phosphorus content also exceeds that of rice. The peel and core of tangerine peel are both famous traditional Chinese medicines. Eating prunes regularly can prevent scurvy and night blindness. However, although tangerine peel is delicious, you should not eat too much of it. Because citrus fruits are warm in nature and nourishing in flavor, they can replenish yang and qi, but excessive consumption will have no effect on the body and can easily cause dryness and heat, which can lead to stomatitis, periodontitis, pharyngitis, etc. After eating a large amount of tangerines and plums once or several times, the carotene in the body will increase significantly. The liver will not have time to convert carotene into vitamin A, causing carotene to accumulate in the skin and causing jaundice-like changes in the skin, especially on the hands and soles of the feet. Often accompanied by nausea and vomiting. Pregnant women should not eat more than 3 tangerines a day, with a total weight of less than 250 grams.

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cherry

Among all fruits, cherries are particularly rich in iron, almost 20 times that of apples, oranges, and pears. Therefore, it is very helpful for pregnant women to eat more cherries. Many pregnant women often eat cherries, and their babies born have rosy and healthy faces.

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In the article, we learned that in the early stages of pregnancy, if you want to eat spicy food, you can choose some slightly spicy food to eat, and don’t eat snacks from roadside stalls, as this is unhealthy for your own physical development and the development of the fetus.