What foods can improve digestion?

Indigestion is a symptom that everyone often encounters in daily life. Whenever this happens, you will feel discomfort such as abdominal distension and pain. This situation is mainly caused by poor gastrointestinal function, so it can be adjusted through diet. So generally speaking, what types of food can enhance your digestive ability? Let me introduce several of them in detail below.

1. Barley and barley malt. Contains vitamins A, B, E and amylase, maltose, glucose, invertase, allantoin, protease, fat and minerals. Allantoin in barley can promote the healing of gastrointestinal ulcers.

2. Yogurt. In addition to containing all the nutrients in milk, yogurt’s most prominent feature is that it is rich in lactic acid, which can break down the lactose in milk into lactic acid. For people who lack lactic acid enzyme in the gastrointestinal tract or who easily suffer from diarrhea after drinking fresh milk, they can drink yogurt instead.

3. Apple. Apples can both relieve diarrhea and promote bowel movements. The tannic acid, organic alkali and other substances contained in it have astringent effects, and the pectin contained can absorb toxins. For simple mild diarrhea, eating apples alone can stop diarrhea. The cellulose in apples can stimulate intestinal peristalsis and accelerate defecation, so it also has a laxative effect.

4. Tomatoes. It is rich in organic acids such as malic acid, citric acid and formic acid, which can protect vitamin C from being destroyed during the processing and cooking process and increase the utilization rate of the vitamin. Tomatoes also contain a special ingredient - lycopene, which helps digestion, acts as a diuretic, and helps gastric juice digest fat.

5. Orange peel. The digestion-promoting effect of orange peel is mainly due to the volatile oil it contains, which stimulates the digestive tract, increases the secretion of gastric juice and promotes gastrointestinal motility.

After reading the above content, everyone should have learned about several foods that can effectively promote digestion, so if your gastrointestinal digestion function becomes weaker, you can add some of these foods to your daily meal plan. However, everyone needs to pay attention to consume it in moderation and never eat a large amount at one time.