Alkaline Water

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Raisins are acidic in composition, but they rarely cause enough acid production to harm a person who experiences occasional heartburn. They are certainly less offensive to the body than some prescription and over the counter treatments for heartburn. While they may not work in every case, heartburn and raisins can enjoy a symbiotic relationship if given enough time.

Heartburn is often cause by food that is slow to digest in the stomach. Foods that are oily or high in fat sit in the stomach much longer than low-fat foods. While these foods remain in the stomach, acids are constantly produced and pumped into the stomach to aid in digestion. As fatty foods are digested, gas is released. This gas causes pressure and promoted heartburn by forcing all of those acids into the esophagus.

Raisins are acidic have an interesting affect on the stomach: when foods enter the stomach and digestion slows, raisins can help create an environment that helps the food to digest and pass through the stomach quickly. This makes them one of the possible heartburn remedies that you can eat with your food. Instead of aggravating the stomach and causing the over-production of stomach acids, raisins pitch in to help the stomach digest foods with less acid production. Less time in the stomach also means less pressure from gas.

By eating raisins on a regular basis, a person can actually experience less heartburn from consuming fatty foods. While the stomach is hard at work producing acids to digest these foods, the raising are in the mix and releasing extra acids to also digest the food.

Raisins are an acidic food – a type of food that helps to restore the natural acids in the stomach. However, people who have chronic acid problems have plenty of these acids and should avoid acidic fruits in most cases. Citrus fruits are also acidic and rank pretty high on the “do not eat” list for people with chronic acid reflux.

Raisins on an empty stomach might cause heartburn or nausea in some people, too. This is because raisins are acidic and stomach acids always have some kind of reaction to other acids that are consumed. This is why raisin bread and raisin oatmeal are better ways to eat raisin if you have an acid reflux condition.


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Simi, thanks for the information, it is so useful. I thought raisins have a high alkaline level because I read from one of the magazines regarding the PH balance, it stated that raisin is -21 which is higher than the rest of the fruits/food or is it that I have mistaken that it should be the other way, it is referring to the acidic level instead of alkaline level?

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Simi, thanks for the information, it is so useful. I thought raisins have a high alkaline level because I read from one of the magazines regarding the PH balance, it stated that raisin is -21 which is higher than the rest of the fruits/food or is it that I have mistaken that it should be the other way, it is referring to the acidic level instead of alkaline level?

It must be noted that because a food is acid it is no indication that it REMAINS acid in the body. It can turn alkaline. Honey and raw sugars produce alkaline ash, but because of a high concentrate of sugar become acid-formers. Some are acid externally but alkaline internally.


Raisins is one example of such food

Classified under Alkaline but acid forming
The acid formed by raisins in the stomach is not harmful to the stomach in aggravating acid reflux if taken with other foods
On the contrary it helps to digest the food BETTER and FASTER thus allowing our stomach to produce less stomach acid for digestion

Hope this helps

Please take note on the highlighted key words

BETTER and FASTER

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It must be noted that because a food is acid it is no indication that it REMAINS acid in the body. It can turn alkaline. Honey and raw sugars produce alkaline ash, but because of a high concentrate of sugar become acid-formers. Some are acid externally but alkaline internally.


Raisins is one example of such food

Classified under Alkaline but acid forming
The acid formed by raisins in the stomach is not harmful to the stomach in aggravating acid reflux if taken with other foods
On the contrary it helps to digest the food BETTER and FASTER thus allowing our stomach to produce less stomach acid for digestion

Hope this helps

Please take note on the highlighted key words

BETTER and FASTER

Thanks for your valuable information.

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Scroll down to the end to read experts from Johns Hopkins on alkaline food and water:

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