Cherries cause bellyache – at least according to a popular wisdom that many people probably know from their childhood. You can find out what science says about it and what you should consider accordingly.
From June to August there is a cherry season in Germany. Then you can buy the sweet little fruits from regional cultivation or snack straight from the tree. However, according to parents and grandparents, we should never eat too many cherries and also do not eat the fruit together with water-otherwise there are gastrointestinal problems.
But how much truth is this popular wisdom actually? Can cherries really cause bellyache?
Cherries and stomach ache: What is it about folk wisdom?
The fact that cherries trigger stomach ache is actually not completely out of air. For the phenomenon, the Federal Center for Nutrition (BZFE) names several reasons:
1. Heaf -mushrooms on cherries
Yeast mushrooms often sit on the shell of the cherries. In our body, the fructose contained then meet in the cherries and the yeast mushrooms.
Especially when you have consumed larger quantities of the popular stone fruit, it happens easily that the mushrooms ferment the sugar into alcohol. This process creates carbon dioxide as a by -product. This can lead to flatulence and abdominal pain.
2. Water dilutes gastric acid
If you also drank water, the flatulence may be particularly strong. Because the water leads to the stomach acid diluted and the mushrooms can be killed less efficiently.
3. Water accelerates process
According to another theory, the water mainly causes the cherries to pass the stomach faster and thus get directly into the intestine. In the intestine, fermentation processes then take place, which can also lead to flatulence and abdominal swing.
Incidentally, the fact that older generations of the post -war period in particular warn of the combination of cherries and water are more likely to have a different reason according to the BZfe: the quality of the drinking water was much worse in the past. At the time, due to the germs it contains, the water caused stomach problems without cherries. That’s why you don’t have to worry today. Because you can safely drink tap water in Germany. You can find out more about this here: Tap water in Germany: Can you drink it without hesitation?
Cherries and stomach ache: How to avoid stomach problems
In order to prevent cherries from being abdominal pain, you should wash off the fruits before eating. So you rinse some yeast mushrooms. More on this here: Wash fruit correctly: What to do about pesticides on the shell?
Do you have a whole tree full of cherries in the garden and don’t want it to be repellent mostly in the garden? You can leave part of the fruits to the birds who may visit your garden as a source of food. You can make the remaining fruits durable by cooking or freezing them. Or you process them into jelly or syrup. You can find out more in these articles:
- Freeze cherries
- Boil cherries
- Make cherry syrup yourself
- Make cherry jelly yourself
Another cause: fructose intolerance
Some people can also have a different causes that cherry stomach ache cause. Even if you suffer from abdominal pain, feeling of fullness or diarrhea after eating other types of fruit, you could be suffering from a so -called fructose emission. This intolerance is also known as fructose intolerance.
It is available if your body cannot absorb and process fructose in the small intestine at all or not fully. Then the fructose reaches a large extent directly into the large intestine. There, intestinal bacteria break down and cause a lot of gases.
It is best to clarify whether you really suffer from fructose intolerance with the help of medical advice. Nutritional advice can also help you. You can find out more here: Fructose intolerance: symptoms, causes and treatment of intolerance.
This text was created with dpa material.
Revised by Lina Brammertz
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