Can women eat chocolate during menstruation?

For female friends, during menstruation, special attention should be paid to economic care and health care, and you can eat some chocolate during menstruation, because proper consumption can help relieve women's discomfort during menstruation.

1. Chocolate

Chocolate (English: chocolate, translated as "chocolate" in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao) comes from Central and South America. The ancestor of chocolate is "xocolatl", which means bitter water. It is a mixed food with cocoa beans as the main ingredient. Its main raw material, cocoa beans, is produced in a narrow strip within 18 degrees north and south latitude of the equator. Chocolate is rich in magnesium, potassium, vitamin A and theobroma, and therefore has a high energy value.

2. Can I eat chocolate during my period?

Proper consumption can help significantly increase the antioxidant content in the blood and relieve women's discomfort during menstruation.

The phenol complex contained in chocolate not only prevents the fat in chocolate from turning rancid, but can also be quickly absorbed into the blood vessels after being ingested, significantly increasing the antioxidant content in the blood. It quickly acts as a powerful antioxidant that prevents LDL oxidation and inhibits platelet activity in blood vessels. These essential substances play an important role in maintaining blood flow in human blood vessels. Therefore, it is good to eat some chocolate during menstruation, but don’t eat too much, as it is bad for your health.

3. Special attention: Chocolate is a high-calorie food. Eating too much will cause the calories to exceed the limit.

Chocolate is a high-calorie food. Although you can eat chocolate during your menstrual period, eating too much will cause the calories to exceed the limit. If you eat too much chocolate at one time, the large amount of monosaccharides in the chocolate may enter your body, stimulating the secretion of large amounts of insulin, causing blood sugar to drop instantly, which can stimulate your appetite.