Dried fruits are a real treasure of useful substances. Dried fruits store all the nutrients that contain fresh fruits, only in a more concentrated form.
In pancreatitis, people are forced to eat on a special diet, allowing a relatively small list of products. Therefore, additional vitamins such patients do not interfere. But is it possible to eat dried fruits in pancreatitis?
Acute pancreatitis is treated only by starvation or a very meager diet, in which there is no place for foods that contain fiber. And dried fruits contain it as much as fresh fruit. Therefore, with acute pancreatitis, absolutely no dried fruits can be consumed!
With chronic pancreatitis, dried fruits are allowed, but not all. You can eat prunes, dried pears and apples. You can not use this disease to eat figs, dates, dried bananas, raisins and dried apricots, since these foods contain a lot of sugar. And the inflamed pancreas does not produce insulin in the amount necessary for its processing.
Even allowed dried fruits with pancreatic should be eaten in moderation, and the best thing is to cook compotes out of them, adding a little sugar or a substitute. This compote is also tasty, and useful, and does not put stress on the pancreas.
Compote from dried fruits with pancreatitis
A compote made from dried fruits will not only quench your thirst in summer, but will also "nourish" the body with vitamins, minerals and trace elements in the winter and autumn, when the body needs it most. But if healthy people can use a wide variety of dried fruits for their preparation, then patient pancreatitis should be more cautious in their choice.
The optimum option for the transition of pancreatitis to the phase of remission is compote, cooked from dried apples and pears. For a more vivid taste, you can add a few pieces of prunes. It is also better to cook compote without adding sugar, natural sweetness of fruit will be quite enough. Such restrictions will make the drink less caloric, and therefore more useful for the body as a whole and safer for the pancreas in particular.
The recipe for making compote from dried fruits with pancreatitis is simple. Pour 2 liters of water into a saucepan, bring to a boil and fill with 100 grams of dried apples and pears( previously washed), bring to a boil again, boil for 5 minutes and set aside to cool.
However, even the most seemingly safe dried fruit can cause allergy, diarrhea, nausea. This is due to the fact that for longer preservation from pests they are often treated with pesticides. Therefore it is very important to wash them well. You can also use this way: washed fruit soaked for 15-20 minutes in kefir, after which they also thoroughly washed them. The acidic environment of lactic acid products destroys almost all pesticides, and therefore dried fruits become safe.