Iftar is certainly the most awaited time during the fasting month. A variety of delicious menus are waiting to be eaten with the family.
Enjoying various variants of the takjil menu when breaking the fast is certainly legal. But have you ever felt bloated after breaking the fast even though you only ate a little? This could be because you chose the wrong iftar menu.
Avoid bloating after breaking the fast, stay away from these 5 food combinations!
You, flatulence or other digestive problems often appear when we fast. This happens because we neglect to regulate our diet.
To avoid bloating, here are food combinations that you shouldn't eat when breaking your fast. Come on!
1. Salty and High-Salt Foods
Breaking the fast by eating fried food accompanied by chili sauce or with chili powder is indeed delicious. But you need to know, consuming a combination of foods that are too salty when breaking the fast can actually trigger flatulence.
Instead, avoid eating salty foods combined with other high-salt foods when breaking the fast. Besides being able to make your stomach bloated, too salty food can also make you thirsty and get headaches!
2. Dates and Milk
As one of the sunnah of Rasulullah SAW, consuming dates to break the fast has indeed been proven to bring many benefits. But in order not to bloat, you need to pay attention to other food combinations after you eat dates.
Consuming dates along with milk can actually make your stomach bloated. In fact, if done carelessly, these two combinations can be toxic and harmful to the body. Avoid it!
3. Fruit after a heavy meal
Who would have thought, fruit could be one of the foods that make you bloated when eaten at iftar. It should be noted, do not eat fruit immediately after you eat a heavy meal.
If you eat fruit after eating a heavy meal, the sugar content in fruit will mix with protein and fat from the heavy menu you eat. As a result, the body takes longer to digest food, causing a feeling of bloating.
4. Protein and Flour
Eating protein-rich dishes as an iftar menu is good. However, do not combine protein with starchy foods.
The combination of protein and flour at the same time can cause flatulence because these two foods require different levels of acidity to be digested by the body. So, avoid these two food combinations.
5. Milk and Orange Juice
Iftar while enjoying a glass of orange juice is guaranteed fresh. It's okay to drink orange juice, but don't mix it with milk.
The sour taste of oranges mixed with milk can cause the stomach to feel nauseous and bloated. Even if done continuously will trigger chronic inflammation. Consuming orange juice along with milk can also cause bad breath due to unhealthy digestion.
Those are some food combinations that should be avoided when breaking the fast because they can cause bloating. Happy fasting in the month of Ramadan 2022 in a healthy way!