Are you aware of these dangers of excess intake of dry fruits?
Posted on: 07/Nov/2019 9:51:05 AM
Do you remember your mother giving you an oldest and traditional super food for your health to be good!!
Dry fruits fall under this category of the oldest and traditional super foods. Point to be taken into account is dry fruits have rich amounts of magnesium, iron, proteins, healthy fats, vitamin B, fibre etc in them. Few examples of dry fruits are dates, dried apricots, cashew nuts, pistachios, raisins etc.
It is worthy to note that dried fruits are fruits from which the majority of original water content has been removes either by sun drying or by using dehydrators etc. Intake of dry fruits could provide us many benefits like improved blood flow, good digestive health etc.
The shocking information is excess intake of dried fruits could harm us.
Excess intake of dry must be avoided for these reasons.
Could lead to increase in weight:
What majority of us do not want is to put on weight. The truth is intake of 250 calories of dry fruits could lead to weight gain of 2 pounds in us. It is known well that intake of 3500 calories would make us to gain 1 pound of weight. Information is sudden increase in the weight could lead to many health complications.
Tooth decay:
Fructose or the fruit sugar is present in dry fruits is known fact. The point here is there are some dry fruits that are coated with additional sugar to keep minimum moisture levels. By excess intake of dry fruits, we could get tooth decay issues in us as the sugars present in dry fruits stick to the teeth and by this sugar is forced to remain on the teeth for a long time.
Gastrointestinal or GI issues:
It is known that intake of fibres could help in smooth bowel movements but excess intake of fibre could harm the gut. Issues like bloating, gas and constipation etc takes place when we eat excess of dry fruits.
Sugar crash:
This could also happen if we eat too much of dry fruits. It must be noted that most dry fruits have high glycemic index and could increase the blood sugar levels in us. This could result in high energy. Point to be noted here is the moment we hit the peak energy levels the blood sugar levels drops quickly leading to sugar crash and fatigue. Important information is raisins have high glycemic index with a rating of 64 and this is according to the Harvard Medical School.
