There are many claims online as to when to or not to take fruits but let’s start with why most people don’t take or eat fruits after meal.

Most people believe that eating fruits immediately after meal delays digestion and causes the meal to remain in the stomach and rot and this therefore has led to health consultants advising that if meal has been taken, there’s need to wait for about 30 minutes before intake of fruits.

Many also believe that taking fruits with meal causes uneasiness, gas(fart) and other speculated symptoms but none of these is actually true.

fruits can only cause your stomach to empty slowly, but it cannot cause meal to remain in the stomach indefinitely. Fruit contains fibre and a study by NCBI made it clear that it is fibre that delays the time it takes the stomach to empty half its contents from an average of 72 minutes to 86 minutes and that actually has nothing to do with meal indigestion or rotting as that interval of time is not enough to make the meal in the stomach rot. On the bright side, it actually helps to keep the stomach full for a reasonable period of time.

so when is the best time to take fruits? The best time to take or eat fruits is in the morning, after taking a glass of water but before eating any meal. This does not however suggest that taking fruits after meal is wrong.

When food gets to the stomach, it is mixed with stomach acid, which has a very low pH of about one or two. Your stomach contents become so acidic that most microorganisms cannot grow. This part of digestion occurs partly to help kill bacteria in your food and prevent microbial growth.

Choosing to take or eat fruit before or after meal depends solely on you as there’s no wrong way to it.