Oh, those sweets. Sometimes it's hard to keep from enjoying your favorite piece of milk or white chocolate. But, if you have such a disease as a gastritis, then you want it or not, but you have to give up or limit yourself to a light dessert that is more low-calorie. Doctors do not recommend eating chocolate with gastritis. And then the question arises: why? On this and other questions, we will try to find answers and consider in more detail what kind of sweetness and how to treat it.
Why can not chocolate be taken with gastritis?
General information about chocolate will allow you to study the question of its composition, and what it can be harmful for gastritis. So, firstly, its basis is cocoa beans. According to their taste data, the cocoa beans themselves are not tasty and bitter. Therefore, the next step is the production of cocoa butter. And this, for a minute, is a very fatty and high-calorie product. To digest cocoa butter should have a healthy stomach, the patient simply can not master it.
Secondly, there are fillers in chocolate. Such as sugar, milk, nuts, raisins, crushed dried fruits, various fillers, alcohol and other fillings. None of these ingredients will not contribute to the prompt treatment of gastritis, but will only increase inflammation.
Third, in addition to all of the above, for a more aesthetic appearance in this product strive to add a variety of thickeners, stabilizers and dyes. To make people want to eat more they are added flavoring. Well, finally, everyone knows that without preservatives here, too, will not do. Thus, manufacturers extend the shelf life.
All these components do not cause much confidence. In a strict diet for gastritis, none of these products is allowed, and since all this is in the chocolate bar, it means that it can not be with gastritis. In addition, another drawback is that cocoa beans contain a large amount of caffeine, which is also very undesirable.
Refuse yourself the pleasure of eating a bar of chocolate stands. It will not lead to anything good. As a fact it is proved that, getting into the body, it provokes the production of hydrochloric acid, which is very harmful for gastritis.
Types of chocolate and how they affect the functioning of the stomach:
- White. It does not contain caffeine at all, but because of this it is the sweetest and the stomach will have to work very long to process such a quantity of vegetable fats.
- Milk. There is harmful caffeine and milk powder, which increases the fat content.
- Bitter. The composition includes a large amount of cocoa butter and cocoa powder, a dose of sugar is minimal. Therefore, the stomach will try to cope with caffeine and vegetable fats.
There is no such chocolate that would ideally fit a patient with a gastritis. But the most harmful is the milk. It has the most harmful components and with its processing the sick stomach can not cope. The second stage includes all types with fillings and additions.
The last place for harmfulness is occupied by white and bitter.
Is it possible to take bitter chocolate with gastritis?
Based on the fact that white and bitter chocolate are less harmful with gastritis, they can sometimes be tried. Thus, it will be clear what kind of stomach takes and what does not. But you need to be very careful. In no case you can not take a whole tile on the sample. It will be enough to eat one small piece.
To the note: the daily rate of consumption of sweet delicacy should not exceed 50 grams.
If, after having tasted bitter or white chocolate, an exacerbation of gastritis occurred, that is, there was drawing pain, heaviness, heartburn or an eructation with an unpleasant smell do not repeat the experiment and give it up altogether.