Tasty and healthy tangerines for pregnancy

Many of us have tangerines, their taste and aroma associated with the Christmas tree and merry New Year holidays. The homeland of these exotic fruits is considered to be South-East Asia. Mandarins owe their name to the Chinese, since in China, because of their high cost, they were affordable only to the richest and most notable and people who were called mandarins. Europeans tried them in the XVIII century and immediately fell in love with them for their unusual refreshing taste.

Mandarin is a vivid representative of the citrus family, perfectly preserving all its useful properties during storage and transportation. The flesh of these fruits consists of 89% of water, the remaining 11% fall on sugar, acids, mineral salts, glycosides, pectin substances, vitamins and essential oils. Most of all in the mandarins of vitamin C - 35 ml per 100 grams of fruit, in addition, the fruit is rich in vitamins B, namely B1 and B2, vitamins P, K, D, provitamin A. Nitrates in these delicious fruits never happen, they simply do not Get along with the citric acid contained in the mandarins.

The juice of mandarin fruit contains calcium, potassium and magnesium, improves metabolic processes and increases appetite, which makes tangerines during pregnancy an excellent source of nutrients and good health. In addition, mandarin juice is an excellent helper in the fight against fever, it will help to quench your thirst and clear the lungs with asthma and bronchitis, restore normal intestinal microflora.

Essential oil from mandarin fruit is one of the best remedies for bad mood and depression, it fits almost all types of skin and is widely used in cosmetology, equally effectively combats acne and wrinkles, soothes irritated skin, helps to defeat cellulite and stretch marks.

Everyone knows that during the period of gestation, women often change their taste preferences, they want something sour, then sweet, then salty. Very often, especially if this period affects the winter months, women begin to eat kilograms of mandarins, than at some point begin to embarrass their loved ones. Can I eat mandarins during pregnancy, in how many and if there are contraindications? Let's try to answer all these questions.

Mandarins during pregnancy will be an excellent means of preventing excess weight, since they are low in calories and promote the normalization of metabolic processes in the body. However, like all citrus fruits, mandarin can become a catalyst for allergic reactions in the body of the future mother and baby. In addition, the likelihood of developing diathesis in the baby in the future. Therefore, doctors do not recommend eating tangerines in large quantities in pregnant women, one or two pieces per day will be enough.

When buying tangerines during pregnancy, remember that you will eat them with your future child, so they should not only be tasty, but as fresh and useful as possible. Currently, on the shelves of shops you can find Spanish, Moroccan and Turkish mandarins.

Spanish mandarins are distinguished by a thick skin, a small amount of sunflower seeds, sweetness and juiciness. Mandarins arrived from Morocco are small, sweet, without seeds with a well-peeled thin, porous skin. Turkish fruits have slightly sour taste, many seeds, their skin is thin, smooth, yellowish-green, separated badly. The most delicious and juicy is the variety "Clementine" - a hybrid of mandarin and orange-korolka, the fruits of this variety are bright orange, small in size, stored for a month or more.

Contraindications. With special care, you should eat tangerines during pregnancy if the woman has the following diseases: allergy to citrus, gastritis, stomach ulcer, hepatitis, duodenal ulcer, cholecystitis, increased gastric acidity, jade, enteritis.