What happens if you eat cucumber with milk

Miscellaneous / by admin / August 17, 2023

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The gastroenterologist told about possible outcomes.

What happens if you eat a fresh cucumber with milk

From the point of view of science, incompatible products do not exist. When choosing food, we primarily focus on taste preferences and our desires, as well as on its pleasant appearance and smell. Therefore, if you want to eat cucumbers and drink them with milk, the disease will not arise from this.

But still, sometimes this combination can cause a laxative effect, and here's why. Cucumbers are vegetables that, on average, are 95% consist from water, and also contain fiber, fructose, glucose, trace elements magnesium, potassium, phosphorus and others. Milk and dairy products contain lactose.

fructose and lactose relate to FODMAP carbohydrates - short-chain molecules that are poorly and not completely absorbed in the small intestine, but decompose already in the large intestine with the formation of gas. To push them down into the small intestine, a large amount of water is attracted.

If you eat a lot of foods that contain lactose and fructose at the same time, they attract a lot of water and move further in transit. After that, they enter the large intestine, where they are broken down by bacteria. As a result, a large amount of gas is formed, which, together with excess fluid, leads to bloating and diarrhea.

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So, if you like this combination, try not to overdo it with the amount of food, and you will not run into diarrhea.

What happens if you eat a pickled or pickled cucumber with milk

When pickling and pickling cucumbers, in addition to table salt and acetic acid, various herbs, spices and garlic are also used, in which contained carbohydrates such as fructans. They, like fructose and lactose, are FODMAP. So from such cucumbers there can be a laxative effect.

Olga Sukhareva (Sitkina)

Evidence-based therapist, gastroenterologist of the federal network of Fomina clinics. Member of the Russian Association of Gastroenterologists. Telegram channel creatorTherapist & Gastroenterologist»

It is pickles and milk that are foods that are rich in FODMAP carbohydrates. And therefore, even in healthy people, they can cause bloating, gas formation and loosening of the stool.

But if the vegetables are well washed, the milk is fresh, and the pickles are prepared in sterile jars where bacteria cannot enter, then the risk of diarrhea is low.

Who can have problems when combining cucumbers with milk

However, there are a number of conditions where the combination of even a small amount of cucumber with milk can lead to severe diarrhea.

Olga Sukhareva (Sitkina)

In a number of diseases, such as bacterial overgrowth syndrome (SIBO), celiac disease, lactase deficiency, the tolerance of products with FODMAP can be greatly reduced. And if a healthy person after a cucumber with kefir feels only a slight seething in the stomach, then a patient with SIBO can keep a white friend company for a long time. It is not dangerous for health at the moment, but reduces the quality of life.

It should also be remembered that SIBO not diagnosed in a timely manner can lead to a decrease in the absorption of vitamins, and undiagnosed celiac disease increases the risk of small intestine neoplasms. Therefore, if you have a feeling that your body is not responding adequately to some harmless foods, you should definitely make an appointment with a gastroenterologist.