When women are pregnant, they are keen to supplement vitamins for the babies by eating fruits. While for most women, it is confusing to choose the best fruits for the babies. Pregnant women should eat more fruits, especially fruits like autumn pears, persimmons, oranges and figs.
As one of the most ancient fruits, autumn pears play an important role in reducing pressure and removing heat. Autumn pears are sweet and refreshing with pleasant fragrance. They are rather effective in reducing fever, causing diuresis, wetting the whistle, preventing cough, slaking thirst and helping produce saliva. For pregnant women, they are useful to treat gestational edema and gestational hypertension. In addition, autumn pears can be also helpful to the treatment of pneumonia, bronchitis and hepatitis.
Persimmon is one of the fruits with excellent quality and reasonable price. Persimmons contain various vitamins, potassium, iron, calcium, phosphorus and so on. The content of minerals contained in persimmons is much higher than that in apples, pears and peaches and so on. Persimmons are cold-natured, playing an important role in removing heat, quenching thirst, preventing cough and promoting the secretion of saliva. Therefore, it is better for pregnant women to eat persimmons in a right amount.
Orange is a warehouse of various nutrients. There are diverse kinds of oranges like grapefruit and seedless tangerine. Oranges contain rich nutrients like citric acid, amino acid, carbohydrate, vitamins, calcium, phosphorus and iron. They can play an important role in preventing scurvy and nyctalopia. However, oranges should not be eaten excessively, or they will cause stomatitis, periodontitis, and sore throat and so on. Pregnant women should eat less than 3 oranges a day.
Figs are very delicious. They contain a large number of nutrients like amino acid, organic acid, magnesium, manganese, copper, zinc, boron and vitamin. They are not only a kind of high-nutritive fruit, but also a kind of effective medicine. Figs are effective in relieving heat, stopping diarrhea and promoting lactation and especially effective in treating diarrhea and piles. Pregnant women are easy to get piles. The effect of figs to treat piles is rather excellent.
Although the fruits mentioned above contain abundant nutrients, they can not take the place of the vegetables. The quality and quantity of the nutrients like vitamins , mineral salt are different between fruits and vegetables. In addition, pregnant women must eat these fruits in a right amount. If they eat too many fruits, it is easy for them to get gestational diabetes and a hard delivery.
