Does eating sour food help you lose weight?

Sour foods are rich in vitamin C, which helps break down and burn fat, preventing fat accumulation. Is this true? (Linh, 30 years old, Hanoi )

Reply:

There is no food that helps burn fat. In fact, any food more or less when consumed provides energy. Sour foods provide less, sweet foods provide more.

When looking for information, you need to be selective and avoid applying it indiscriminately. Eating sour foods to lose weight is very harmful, because there are many types of sour foods, even yogurt is a fermented type that is considered healthy, but if abused, it can also harm the body. Or with sour fruits such as oranges, lemons, tangerines... if abused, it will cause side effects.

Eating fermented foods like pickles and eggplants every day instead of vegetables is very dangerous because they contain a lot of salt. Eating too much can affect the heart, blood pressure, liver, and kidneys.

The correct principle of losing weight is to control the amount of food intake, balance the three energy-producing substances including protein, fat, carbohydrates and maintain daily physical activity. In addition, people need to drink enough water, only snack when prescribed by a doctor, and limit foods high in fat, oil and sugar.

Doctor Nguyen Trong Hung
National Institute of Nutrition

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