Can I eat sour food during menstruation?

Everyone has different tastes in food. Some like sour food, some like spicy food. Can you eat sour food during menstruation? There is no restriction on the taste of foods that are not easy to eat during menstruation, but some foods with cold nature are not suitable for consumption. Women during menstruation can drink yogurt, but they should try to drink yogurt at room temperature and try not to drink refrigerated yogurt.

1. Can I drink yogurt during my period?

Women should be careful when drinking yogurt during menstruation. Yogurt itself has no effect on menstruation, but because yogurt is generally refrigerated, women should avoid spicy and cold foods during menstruation, so they should drink yogurt with caution. Even if you want to drink it, you can't drink frozen yogurt directly out of the refrigerator.

Yogurt is edible for the general population. Yogurt is suitable for people with weak body, insufficient qi and blood, malnutrition, dry intestines and constipation; it is suitable for patients with hypercholesterolemia, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, and fatty liver; it is suitable for cancer patients, especially those with digestive tract cancer; it is suitable for people with dry skin and can also be eaten as a beauty food; women who drink yogurt in moderation over a long period of time can make their skin moisturized, delicate, and shiny.

However, people with excessive stomach acid should not eat too much yogurt; patients who have undergone gastrointestinal surgery, diarrhea or other intestinal diseases are not suitable for drinking yogurt. Women who are menstruating should also drink yogurt with caution.

2. How to drink yogurt during menstruation

Since women cannot eat raw or cold food during menstruation, if they want to drink yogurt, it is best to leave the yogurt at room temperature for a while and drink it when it is no longer cold. This will not cause harm to the body and can also effectively supplement nutrition. But be careful not to heat the yogurt before drinking it, so as to avoid killing the active lactic acid bacteria in the yogurt and weakening the nutritional content.

In addition, pay attention to the choice of yogurt. There are currently two common yogurt products on the market. One is traditional yogurt made by adding two types of fungi to fresh milk and fermenting it; the other is probiotic yogurt, which is made by adding two other types of lactic acid bacteria to the former. It usually has the word "probiotics" on the label. Probiotic yogurt must contain active lactic acid bacteria. In addition to a series of metabolites beneficial to the human body produced during the lactic acid bacteria fermentation process, the active lactic acid bacteria it contains are also beneficial to regulating the balance of the human intestinal microecology.

Traditional yogurt does not contain active lactic acid bacteria, but yogurt with inactive lactic acid bacteria also has nutritional value. This is because during the fermentation process of lactic acid bacteria, lactose is consumed and a series of metabolites such as vitamins and enzymes are produced. These metabolites are beneficial to the human body. Women can choose the yogurt products that suit them according to their own needs.