Can I eat figs during menstruation?

Fig is a fruit that everyone is very familiar with. Fig has high nutritional value and tastes good. Figs are popular among most foodies, and eating figs can improve the body's resistance and immunity. Therefore, it is good for women and children to eat more. However, women experience physical disorders during menstruation. So we often pay attention to our diet, and we also need to pay attention to fruits, so can we eat figs during menstruation?

(1) Figs have a strong and sweet taste, and they can be cooked in a variety of ways to enhance their fragrance and increase people's appetite. Figs also have the effects of strengthening the stomach and intestines, reducing swelling and detoxifying, and are therefore popular among people. Figs can be eaten during menstruation, and there is no effect. During menstruation, you should pay more attention to keeping warm, and avoid eating raw, cold, or irritating foods.

(2) Figs have a very high dry matter content, with fresh figs containing 14-20% and dried figs containing more than 70%. Among them, the glucose content that can be directly absorbed and utilized by the human body accounts for 34.3% (dry weight), fructose accounts for 31.2% (dry weight) and sucrose accounts for only 7.82% (dry weight). Therefore, it has lower calories and is called low-calorie food in Japan. Domestic medical research has proven that it is a health food for weight loss. Figs contain a variety of vitamins, especially carotene. The fresh fruit contains 30 mg/100 g, and the dried fruit contains 70 mg/100 g, which is higher than peaches, grapes, plums, pears, citrus and persimmons. Figs contain a large amount of inorganic elements that are beneficial to the human body, but do not contain carcinogenic inorganic elements such as Co, Cd, Pb, etc. It has a good effect on enhancing the body's health and anti-cancer ability. Fig fruits, branches and leaves are rich in enzymes, with protease being the most abundant, followed by lipase, amylase, superoxide dismutase (SOD), etc. Eating fig fruits as after-meal fruit can help digestion. In recent years, major breakthroughs have been made in using figs to extract SOD enzymes and develop high-quality cosmetics, which has doubled the value of figs.

(3) Fruits suitable for consumption during menstruation: neutral fruits such as apples, figs, strawberries, tomatoes, etc., while oranges, peaches, cherries, dates, lychees, longans, pineapples, pomegranates, and grapes are warm in nature and are also suitable for consumption during menstruation. However, it is important to note that you should not eat too much at one time. If you accidentally eat cold food during your menstrual period, or can't help eating ice, you can drink more brown sugar boiled ginger to balance the blood circulation in your body and promote blood flow.