Apple not only is easy to eat but
also increases resistance for pregnant women and fetuses.
According to experts, apple contains a lot
of nutrients that are useful for pregnant women and fetus. This is kind of
fruit that is easy to eat and popular.
The nutritious content in an apple
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Energy: 81kcl
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Potassium: 159mg
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Protein: 1/2g
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Folic acid: 4mcg
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Carbohydrate: 21g
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Fiber: 4g
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Vitamin C: 8g
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Vitamin B3: 0.106mg
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Vitamin A: 74IU
Effects of apples to pregnant women
Prevent
constipation
Every day, if pregnant women eat 1-2
apples, they will be good for digestive system and reduce constipation – this
is disease that is popular in pregnancy.
Apple
can help pregnant women prevent constipation.
Prevent
bacterial contamination
Especially after main meals, if you have
dessert with fresh apples, they will help you prevent diseases about teeth,
mouth; prevent tooth decay and stomachache. Keeping hygiene well in pregnancy
is very important.
Reduce
headache
Drinking orange juice and rubbing it on
your head and temporal area will reduce stress, headache and especially
tiredness for pregnant women that have morning sickness.
Prevent
asthma
Apple is rich of flavonoid and other
antioxidants that can increase resistance, reduce the risk of catching asthma
to fetus and little babies after being born.
Prevent
diarrhea
Diarrhea in pregnancy is rather dangerous.
Therefore, pregnant women should know how to prevent to reduce the risk of
catching disease. Apple contains pectin that helps balance quantity of
bacterium in bowel and prevents diarrhea. If you have diarrhea, you can eat
more to gain effect of treating.
Treat
spasm
Serious spasm in pregnancy can lead to
miscarriage or premature birth. The reason of this phenomenon can be that
pregnant women lack in calcium, magnesium, potassium, vitamin B, C. Apple
contains a lot of these substances.
Intensify
immune ability
Eating apple helps stimulate to produce
antibody and white blood cell. Every day, pregnant women should eat an apple to
increase immune ability.
Effects of apples to fetus
Reduce
the risk of catching disease to fetus
Recently, people have carried out a
research about effects of apple to pregnant women: pregnant women were divided
into 2 groups, 1 group didn’t eat apple and the other ate 1-2 apples. Result
shows that women that eat apple regularly will reduce the risk of catching
asthma for babies after they are born.
Help
babies have little allergy after they are born
Antioxidants in apple not only help
increase immune system of mothers but also are premise for fetus’s health. If
mothers eat apples regularly, it will help babies have less allergy than others.
Ways that help you choose delicious apples
You
need to know how to choose delicious apples.
Choose apples that are packed. Peal of this
kind of apple is cleaner; it is affected by polluted air, repellent,
preservative less.
Surface of apple is fresh and it has
natural wax or a kind thin of flour of fruit. To improve value and avoid making
apples lose water, people use machine to polish and use preservative. Hence,
you should sharpen peal before eating.
You should choose kinds of apple that have
reference about clean apple, and at least, they are chosen and verified. They
will be safer than other normal kinds of apple.
Delicious dishes with apple for pregnant women
Apple
juice
Apple
juice
Raw materials:
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2 apples
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½ lemon
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Salt, boiled and filtered water
How to do:
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Apples are sharpened and cut into pieces along
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Prepare a bowl of water and squeeze the juice
out of lemon, pour a little of salt
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Soak apples in water and water covers all of
apples
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Use juicer and press apples
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Pour in glass and drink immediately
Apple tea – fresh milk
Raw materials:
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1 apple, 1 tea bag (Lipton or Dimah)
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150ml of fresh milk, sugar, ice, lemon, mint
How to do:
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Put milk in microwave or heat, soak tea bag in 5
minutes and take it out
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Wash apples, sharpen peal, pour them into juicer
and press to take juice
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Pour milk tea, sugar, ice, then shake so that it
floats smooth froth
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Pour it into glass, cut a slice of lemon to
decorate and enjoy
Pork cooks with apples and tomatoes
Raw materials:
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Pork: 500grams, 2 big apples, 300 grams of
tomato, 30 grams of dry grapes
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Onion: 150 grams, garlic: 3 cloves, coconut
milk: 150ml
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Curry: 4 spoons, a little of cooking oil, salt
and pepper
How to do:
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Wash pork, cut into square piece
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Sharpen peal of apples, each of apple is cut
into 6 parts
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Tomatoes are cut into big tiny cubes
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Onion is cut into 4 parts and then they are
sliced. Garlic is ground. Pour onion and garlic into pot and fry until they
have smell, pour pork into and fry in 5 minutes and give tomato and mix them.
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Continue pouring apples, onion, curry and salt
into pot, and do similar manipulation. Sprinkle coconut milk in pot, cover lid,
cook with small fire in 40 minutes, you will have dish that pork is cooked with
apples, tomatoes, dry grapes and fragrant curry.
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Scoop them to dish, dust pepper, you can eat it
with hot rice, soft noodles, or bread.
