Can I eat yam during menstruation?

Huaishan, which is the yam we often eat, can be easily purchased in major vegetable markets. Eating Huaishan often is good for our health. Huaishan can effectively enhance immunity, anti-aging, and lower blood sugar. Female friends prefer the unique taste of yam. Many women have questions about whether they can eat Huaishan during menstruation. Let's learn about it below.

Huaishan has high nutritional value. It contains amino acids and vitamins, which have a good therapeutic effect on human lipid metabolism, can protect the insulin in the body, prevent arteriosclerosis and soften blood vessels. As a medicinal material, Huaishan itself does not have the effect of activating blood circulation, so Huaishan can be eaten during menstruation.

After understanding whether you can eat yam during menstruation, let’s find out which foods are incompatible with yam.

Do not eat yam and gansui together; nor should they be taken with alkaline drugs.

Yam and pork liver. Yam is rich in vitamin C, and pork liver contains trace metal elements such as copper, iron, and zinc. When vitamin C meets metal ions, it accelerates oxidation and destruction, reducing its nutritional value. Therefore, it is not advisable to eat yam after eating pork liver.

Yam with cucumber, pumpkin, carrot and winter squash. Cucumber, pumpkin, carrot, and winter squash all contain vitamin C-degrading enzymes. If they are eaten with yam, the vitamin C will be decomposed and destroyed.

Yams and seafood. In addition to minerals such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, and iodine, general seafood (including fish, shrimp, and algae) are rich in protein. Fruits such as hawthorn and pomegranate contain tannic acid. If they are mixed and eaten, they will be combined into tannic acid protein, which has an astringent effect, causing constipation, increasing the absorption of toxins in the intestines, and causing symptoms such as abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting.

Through the relevant content introduction, we can understand that women can eat yam during menstruation, and the taboos of eating yam are also explained in the article. I hope that everyone will be careful not to eat the foods introduced above at the same time when eating yam in the future, so as to avoid some bad reactions in the body caused by eating them together.