which is more effective: eating fruits before meals or after meals?

i have read an article, it is stated that we should eat fruits before meals. both of them can't be eaten together. fruits are hard to get digest if we taken our meal before them. i have been told by my friends, if we eat fruits after meal will cause us have astriction. is better we have fruits before meal or 30 minutes after we have our meal.

Effective in what? You need to add more info to this question if you want to get a concrete and direct answer. All fruits are healthy whether you take them before or after meal and all of them give you the same nutrients that your body needs. Some people use the fruit for the purpose of losing weight and it would only be effective if you take the fruit alone without the heavy meal.

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/fruit.asp Snopes is my favorite site to check up on such questions. It has the history of the original email from August 2001 and how it morphed into other forms as the years passed. It was not written by doctors, but by people who make money publishing diet schemes. It does point out that there are two kinds of people who should not eat fruit on an empty stomach; those with diabetes and those with fructose intolerance. It may be true that the fruit may digest quicker if eaten alone, but there is no benefit or detriment in doing so, except as stated in the preceding paragraph.

it depends with what you want to achieve but for general speaking the best time to consume fruits is before meal because it is best when our body is not yet full which give better absortin of nutrients in fruits..

Personally, I eat them between meals, so I won't be so hungry during the meals. I am sure some people might not want to do it that way, but it works for me. Sometimes I also have them as dessert after a meal!

if you eat fruits for dessert it's best after meals, if it's the main dish, of course east it as it. I don't think fruits can be served as appetizer eaten before meals. oh, I just don't know!

I think there shouldn't be much difference as far as the absorbtion is concerned. Here in India people have fruits in many ways. In northen parts of India fruit is eaten as dessert after the meals. In southern part of India some fruits like bananas and Mangoes and taken along with the meals. In Centarl India Fruits are made intopaste and they are consumed like side dishes. Fruit salads and fruit Juices are taken as breakfast in most of the parts in India. Cut fruits what lacally known as Fruit Chat is mixture of cut fruits sprinked with spices and this dish is consumed as a snack. In India especially the ladies hold fast one day a week religiouly, and on this particular day they normally have fruits as their main food. many fruits are used in preparing the dishes which are eaten along the meals. Seeing all these things I think it really shouldn't make any difference when you are having your fruit, so long you are having fresh and clean fruits which are hygenically stored and served! Thanks !

Doesn't matter dear. The fruit is high in Fiber and that is what makes it effective. Before, after or as. All the same. Sincerely and With Appreciation.

I think that it`s realy efective if you eat them like one meal not before or after eating something else you can eat them for breakfast or if you are hungry in the afternoon.

Mine! It's nice to eat first my meals than eating the fruits!