What Are the Benefits and Drawbacks of Eating Oranges?

Benefits of Eating Oranges

The main benefit of eating oranges is that they provide a large amount of vitamin C necessary for the body, and oranges generally have a sweet and sour taste, so they also have the effect of promoting saliva production and quenching thirst. For people with high blood lipids, eating oranges can also help excrete excess cholesterol and lipids from the body, which has the effect of reducing blood lipids. However, eating too many oranges may stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, causing diarrhea and other symptoms.

Benefits:

1. Promoting saliva production and quenching thirst: Oranges have the effect of digesting food and eliminating greasiness, and are suitable for consumption half an hour after meals. In addition, oranges have the effect of promoting saliva production and quenching thirst. The large amount of vitamins contained in oranges can help sober up and detoxify.

2. Reducing blood lipids: Oranges contain pectin, which can excrete excess lipids and cholesterol from the body, reduce the absorption of exogenous cholesterol, and thus eating oranges has the effect of reducing blood lipids.

3. Clearing the bowel and relieving constipation: The vitamins and colloids contained in oranges can promote gastrointestinal motility, accelerate the passage of food through the digestive tract, and allow fecal lipids and cholesterol to be excreted faster with feces, thus having the effect of clearing the bowel and relieving constipation.

Drawbacks of Eating Too Many Oranges:

1. Stimulating the gastrointestinal tract: The worst time to eat oranges is on an empty stomach, as oranges contain a certain amount of sulfuric acid, which can irritate the gastric mucosa, leading to severe stomach pain. Long-term consumption may cause certain damage to the gastrointestinal tract, so we should choose an appropriate time to eat oranges.

2. Causing deficiency heat: Although oranges are highly nutritious and beneficial to human health, overconsumption is not recommended. According to traditional Chinese medicine, eating too many oranges can injure the spleen, manifesting as deficiency heat. Therefore, we should not eat more than five oranges per day, and it is best to eat them in different time periods rather than all at once.