There are foods that are good when people eat them on an empty stomach. Also, there are bad foods to eat on an empty stomach. Eating on an empty stomach means breakfast that people eat right after they wake up. Then, what are some good and bad foods to eat when you wake up in the morning on an empty stomach?

First, good foods to eat on an empty stomach are carrot, potato, egg, and cabbage. Carrot is good to refill vitality because it has a lot of vitamins, carotene, and roughage. Also, the search for potatoes protects the stomach like coating, and it gives us the power so that we can do some activities. Egg helps us to decrease calories which we eat during the day, and it is helpful to produce energy. Moreover, as an egg has lots of nutrients, we can raise the weight loss effect when we eat an egg on an empty stomach. Lastly, cabbage is helpful to strengthen the gastrointestinal mucous membrane, so it is good for patients with gastritis, stomach ulcers, enteritis, and colorectal disease.

▲ Good foods to eat on an empty stomach

There are also bad foods to eat on an empty stomach. The foods which are not good to eat on an empty stomach are banana, milk, and sweet potato. First, a banana has lots of magnesium, so if we eat a banana that has a lot of magnesium, our magnesium level will increase rapidly. Then, it can strain the cardiovascular system because of the unbalance of potassium. Also, milk has various proteins, so it makes our stomach irritated with stomach acid that protein made. Finally, sweet potato which people love as a diet food is not good on our empty stomach. Its ingredients like tannin and collagen stimulate the stomach wall, and it can bring up brash using stomach acid.

▲ Food which is typical bad on an empty stomach

Eating good or bad foods on an empty stomach influenced people's health. This information is important for people to live healthy in their lifetime.

By Hye Jeong Yun