Pregnant women want to eat sour food

During pregnancy, women usually experience "early pregnancy reactions" such as picky eating, poor appetite, nausea, and vomiting. Because strange-tasting foods can stimulate the stomach to secrete gastric acid, which is beneficial to improve the appetite of pregnant women, it can also increase the activity of digestive enzymes, promote gastrointestinal motility, and improve the digestion and absorption of food. Therefore, if pregnant women eat some sour things to make up for the lack of gastric juice, symptoms such as nausea and vomiting can also be alleviated.

During pregnancy, the embryo will metabolize a substance called "chorionic gonadotropin", which can significantly reduce the excretion of gastric juice, causing a significant decrease in the activity of digestive and absorptive enzymes, thereby affecting the appetite and digestion and absorption of pregnant women. Therefore, pregnant women usually immediately experience "early pregnancy reactions" such as picky eating, poor appetite, nausea, and vomiting. Because strange-tasting foods can stimulate the stomach to secrete gastric acid, which is beneficial to improve the appetite of pregnant women, it can also increase the activity of digestive enzymes, promote gastrointestinal motility, and improve the digestion and absorption of food. Therefore, if pregnant women eat some sour things to make up for the lack of gastric juice, symptoms such as nausea and vomiting can also be alleviated.

Pregnant women should choose fresh vegetables such as tomatoes, bayberry wine, cherries, oranges, sweet oranges, red grapes, green apples, etc. They are not only sour but also rich in nutrients.

But you must remember not to eat pickled sauerkraut or vinegar products. Although artificially pickled sauerkraut and vinegar products have a certain strange smell, vitamins, proteins, minerals, sugars and other nutrients are almost lost. In addition, pickled sauerkraut contains a high level of sodium nitrite, a carcinogen. Excessive consumption is obviously harmful to the health of pregnant women and fetuses.

In addition, for sour hawthorn fruit, although it contains vitamin C, pregnant women should not eat too much, whether it is fruit or dried slices. Because hawthorn berry or dried hawthorn contains ingredients that stimulate uterine contractions, it may cause miscarriage and premature birth. Especially women who are pregnant for less than 3 months and those who have a history of miscarriage or premature birth should not eat hawthorn berry.