During pregnancy digestive system problems are common, most of them, annoying, but not serious, neither for you, nor for the baby. Today, May 29, world digestive health day, we want to facilitate a recipe series and recommendations to take care of what you eat and how you eat it.
Some of the most common digestive problems in pregnant women, and that you may be having are the nausea and vomiting, especially in the first trimester, the constipation, heaviness or flatulence. With these easy and nutritious recipes we hope to alleviate your symptoms, but do not forget to consult with the nutritionist, and let him or her advise you.
Recipes against gases during pregnancy
We present you 2 recipes that will help you to eat healthily. There are times when legumes or vegetables by themselves cause us flatulence, but depending on what we season or accompany them with, we can eliminate these gases. Of all is known the power of cumin when cooking cabbages and cauliflowers to avoid flatulence.
Let's start the morning with a papaya juice combined with lemon, orange, carrots and fresh mint. In addition to being exquisite, this mixture will provide you with vitamins A, B and C and minerals. Papaya contains an enzyme called papain that supports digestion. Put all the ingredients, except the orange juice, in the blender and mix for 1 minute. Then you add the orange one and that's it.
In summer it is very cool and takes care of the health of your digestive system by cucumber and tomato salad, thanks to its water and fiber content. It is used to control bloating and gas. In addition to cucumbers and tomatoes, it has avocado, onion. Wash and cut everything according to your taste, and to dress it use black pepper, salt, oil and vinegar.
Recipes for apples against heartburn
The apple is a fruit rich in soluble fiber. It is recommended to include it in any balanced diet, since it acts as intestinal regulator, natural antacid, purifying and anti-inflammatory of the digestive system. A fruit salad of banana, pineapple and apple, with the juice of half a lemon and some mint leaves is an ideal dessert that will help you have a good digestion.
To the traditional apple cake, to make it more nutritious, but still digestive, you can add oatmeal, with or without cream cheese. You need wheat flour, oatmeal, brown sugar, eggs, almonds, cream cheese, and apples. Mix the flour with the rolled oats, the sugar, the powdered or chopped almonds, and the yeast. Then you add the oil, the white cheese at room temperature and the beaten eggs, and mix again.
To this mass you add the apples in small slices, not very thick, and everything mixed is poured into a mold. We put in the preheated oven, about 40 minutes or until the cake, the skewer or the toothpick comes out clean and lets cool. And remember any recipe with apple will help you against heartburn.
Fish recipes that take care of your digestive system
Among the foods that facilitate digestion are some fish, such as mackerel, sole or sea bream. Other foods that take care of the digestive system are lamb's lettuce, coriander, celery, chives, oats, artichokes, and fennel. With what any of these fish cooked with these ingredients will facilitate digestion,
For example, you can prepare this recipe so easy. The ingredients you need are sole fillets, artichokes, lemon, oil, salt, garlic and parsley. Boil only the artichoke hearts in salted water. Chop half of the sole fillets, season with salt and pepper and mix with half the garlic, parsley and the fried bay leaf. Fill the artichokes with this mixture and at the same time surround them with the remaining fillets, hold them with toothpicks. Put everything in the oven for 15 minutes. To present it you can add lemon juice with sesame.
In the oven You can also prepare bream with fennel and citrus. For this recipe you have to prepare a juice with half a lemon, half a lime and half an orange. You strain it and push it away. It also cuts these same citrus fruits into very thin slices. Paint a baking tray with oil and cover it with some clean fennel bulbs. Place the bream on top. Pour in the juice and bake for 20 minutes at 170 ° C. If you feel like it, you can include some grains of pomegranate in the presentation.