Tips for Ramadan

Have you ever wondered about Sohour (breakfast) or even late night dinner of eating then going to sleep. Some foods just don’t digest quickly enough. So avoid foods that take more than 3 hours to digest.

Here is a list from this site:

Digestion Time Of Foods *

1 1/4 Hours
parsley

1 1/2 Hours
lemon
Irish moss

1 3/4 Hours
avocado
grapes
mango
olive, ripe
raspberry

2 Hours
blueberry
sweet cherry
grapefruit
orange
raisin
coconut milk
artichoke
beet greens
garlic
potato
tomato
brown rice

2 1/4 Hours
fig, fresh
pear, fresh
pineapple
strawberry
asparagus
carrot
cauliflower
lettuce: cos, loose leaf, iceberg

2 1/2 Hours
blackberry
date
fig, dried
gooseberry
peach, fresh
almond
dandelion
greens
leek
mushroom
okra
lima
bean
white rice
basmati rice

Note: Foods beyond this time should not
be eaten 3 hours prior to bedtime.

2 3/4 Hours
apple, fresh
apricot, fresh
currant
peach, dried
plum
watermelon
chestnut
coconut meat, fresh
pecan
pignolia
beet
summer squash
wheat bran

3 Hours

lime
prune, dried
filbert nut
walnut
broccoli
cabbage
Swiss chard
sweet corn
endive (escarole)
kohlrabi
rhubarb
spinach
winter squash
white bean
lentil
soybean
wheat germ

3 1/4 Hours
cranberry
cantaloupe
casaba melon
honeydew melon
olive oil
pomegranate
cashew nut
coconut meat, dried
celery
cucumber
onion
sweet green pepper
pumpkin
radish
rutabaga
sweet potato
turnip greens
watercress
snap bean
peas, fresh
peanut
millet

3 1/2 Hours
safflower oil
sesame seed oil
eggplant
mustard
greens peas, dried
soybean oil
rye

3 3/4 Hours
persimmon
quince
red cabbage
barley
wheat

4 Hours
Brussels sprouts
horseradish
turnip

 

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