3 General Errors When Consuming Fruits That Cause Implementation Problems

JAKARTA - Fruit is an important part of human diet. Eating fruit is a healthy habit that helps the body get nutrition, keeps energy stable, and menutrisizes the skin. Fruit is also one of the easiest ways to support health as a whole.

Fruits rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and natural fiber that help increase energy, strengthen endurance, and facilitate digestion without adding too many calories.

Its high antioxidant content helps protect the body from inflammation and oxidative stress, thereby reducing the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and obesity.

Even though the fruit is healthy, how to consume it can actually affect digestion. Maria Jangda, a health and nutrition expert shared a video on Instagram about three common mistakes that are often made when eating fruit.

Here are three simple things that can prevent digestive problems that often appear after eating fruit, as reported by the Times of India page on Saturday, November 22, 2025.

1. Eat Fruit After Eating Heavy

According totips, when we eat after eating heavy foods, the stomach is actually focusing on digesting carbohydrates, proteins, and denser fats. As a result, food lasts longer in the stomach and starts to trigger acidic conditions. Not a few people feel stomach acid or stomach is uncomfortable when eating fruit after eating large.

He also mentioned a study from Penn University that finding food before eating can increase saturation and reduce calorie intake by 15'20%. In addition, eating fruit before eating also helps control insulin production through the release of the GLP-1 hormone which prevents a spike in blood sugar.

So the best time to eat fruit is an hour before eating, or two hours after eating if you've already eaten hard.

2. Consumption of fruit after the Sun is sixth

Fruits contain various types of acid, such as malic acid, citric acid, ascorbic acid, fumaric acid, and air acid. According totips, these acids have the effect of waking the body, especially apples which they call the equivalent of one cup of caffeine.

Acid in fruit can also interfere with melatonin production, a hormone that helps the body sleep. In addition, fruit can increase metabolism and provide additional energy, something that is more suitable to do when the body is still active during the day.

The best time to eat fruit is the morning, to be precise an hour before breakfast or two hours after breakfast. The second portion can be consumed around four p.m. as a snack, but avoid eating fruit after sunset.

3. Mixing All Fruits In One Salad

According toLAH, mixing all types of fruit can actually damage the intestinal lining. Fruits have different traits.

- citrus fruits such as oranges, lemons, limes, and graphefruit.

- Sweet fruit such as bananas, avocados, and mangoes.

- Astringen fruit such as apples, urus, berries, and cherries.

When these three types of fruit are mixed, the body must work harder to digest because the digestive enzymes are different, so that it can cause the absorption of nutrients to be not optimal. In addition, this can slow down digestion and trigger convexity, bloating, gasy stomach, to symptoms of stomach acid.

He also emphasized that melon is a fruit that is not very suitable to be mixed with any fruit. Melon should be eaten separately, both in a separate bowl or as a menu itself.

Illustration of women eating fruit (Photo: Freepik/jcomp)