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Are salads better to eat at midday? Or also at night? (Laura Galian, reader)
Hello Laura,
Salads are healthy and convenient for both lunch and dinner, but if for some reason we notice that raw vegetables do not agree with us at night, we can try to leave the portion of vegetables in fresh format for midday and prioritize them for lunch. night the cooked format.
Each person’s individual tolerance should be taken into account and general recommendations should not be made. I prefer to clarify this because there is a lot of popular culture that claims that vegetables at night feel bad, but that is not even close to the case. Yes, there may be specific cases, but it is not the norm.
While salad is not a heavy meal, there are many dinners that include foods that are less digestible and are never associated with complicated digestion. Some examples are cold cuts, sausages, large amounts of cheese, fried foods, and even a glass of milk before bed. There is, therefore, a very important social component in this.
In any case, the most important thing is to include vegetables in the main meals of the day (lunch and dinner), and if we manage to get one of these in raw format, much better, because we will be taking advantage of all their nutrients. If we still want to give more importance to cooked vegetables, we can always give them more prominence, taking into account that it is important to consume fresh fruit so that not all of these nutrients decrease with cooking.
Why do you have a lot of gas? (G. Zarraga)
The production of gases by our body can be very variable. It depends on our diet, our nutritional status, habits such as smoking and drinking alcohol, stress, the water we drink, whether we have introduced new foods…
But, basically, three fundamental aspects should be taken into account:
If we talk about the volume of gases, on the one hand, we have legumes, which cause more or less gases to the extent that our microbiota is more or less adapted. People who do not usually eat legumes daily tend to have more gas, derived from the fructans and galactans in legumes.
There are also some foods, which depending on your individual tolerance, such as dairy or gluten, can cause you to have a lot of gas or cramps.
Let’s not forget polyols, which are the sweeteners that we can find in some sweetened foods such as candy or chocolates, which generate a lot of gases.
