Do you need to heat up apples during the confinement period?

For some cold fruits, if you heat them, it will reduce irritation to the stomach and intestines. Generally, when heating fruits, you can choose to steam or boil them. So, do you need to heat up the apples you eat during confinement? For some postpartum mothers, cold food is not suitable for consumption. But apples are mild fruits, so they don’t need to be heated. But if mothers like to eat steamed apples, that’s fine too.

Women are relatively fragile right after giving birth. They cannot get cold at this time, otherwise they will easily suffer from postpartum diseases. Therefore, they are very cautious during the confinement period, for fear of getting sick! I have heard from the older generation before that during the confinement period, mothers cannot eat fruit directly, but should heat the fruit before eating. However, many people have great doubts about this statement, because we all know that high temperature will destroy the vitamins in the fruit. If the fruit is scalded directly with boiling water, the nutritional value of the fruit is actually not high. But if it is not heated, people are afraid that the coldness of the fruit will cause harm to the mother.

First of all, we need to understand why it is said that fruits should be heated before being eaten by postpartum women. In China, many elderly people think that fruits are cool foods. If they are eaten directly, the cool air will be deposited in the body of postpartum women and cause harm to their bodies. If the fruits are heated, this cool situation will change. In fact, this is just a conceptual misunderstanding on our part. It is said that the cool nature refers to the reaction between the elements contained in the fruit and some elements in the human body, which has little to do with the temperature of the fruit itself, so this is just a misunderstanding!

Although the properties of fruits will not change due to heating them with hot water, some pregnant women with poor health will suffer from diarrhea after eating cold food, which will harm their bodies. Another key point is that it has a lot to do with the season. If the weather is relatively hot, the skin of the fruit is not very cold, so there is no need to heat it with water before eating it. If it is autumn or winter, the weather is relatively cold. If you eat cold fruits at this time, it will easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort in pregnant women, affecting their physical recovery! So everyone must pay attention!