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Are Raisins Good For Constipation?

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Channel: CanXida · 2018 · Education

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Hi there, Eric Bakker from New Zealand. Thanks for coming back. I'm a naturopath. I appreciate you guys looking at my channel. Please subscribe if you're not a subscriber, and if you have any questions, throw them at me through my channel, and I'll do my best to pick out regular videos, or regular topics into videos on those topics.

We're still talking about constipation. We're going to talk now about are raisins good for constipation? Dried fruits are very good for constipation, so you need to be careful with dried fruits though, because they can contain an awful amount of sugar in them, a huge amount of sugar, so small amounts are better.

I prefer fresh fruits over dried fruits any day, and it's one of the reasons I grow all my own fruit now. I think it's a very good idea to grow some food yourself, but the more you can grow, the better. There's no way you can compare fresh grapes, or fresh persimmons, fresh apples, fresh apricots, you can't compare that with dried stuff. 

I mean, the flavor is entirely different, the sugar content's different, it's just to me a much better thing is to eat the fresh food. 
If you're going to eat raisins, they are actually quite interesting.

They contain quite a lot of goodness in them. They've even got this stuff called tartaric acid, which helps to kill off some of the bacteria in the bowel. It's a cleansing, detoxifying effect in the gut. 

Raisins contain appreciable amounts of different minerals and vitamins in them, including iron, magnesium, even some B vitamins, but they do also contain a bit of sugar in them, so if you've got a candida problem, or CBO, small intestinal bacterial problem, you may want to refrain from having raisins in your diet.
 
If you don't suffer a lot from bloating, and gas, and burping, farting, and all that kind of stuff, then raisins may be okay for you. I enjoy raisins. I have oatmeal every single morning. Every day of the year I have a bowl of rolled oats, which I just simmer in water, just spring water, pure water, and I put in the oatmeal about half a tablespoon to a tablespoon of nice organic raisins, and I just let that cook. 

Then I'll put some honey on top of that, a little bit of my own honey from my bees. I put that on top, and that's my breakfast. 
Raisins are good like that, you can have them with oatmeal, you can have them with yogurt. You can soak them, and you can even put them in salads. A combination of walnut and raisin with some shredded chicken is very, very tasty. 

These sorts of dried fruits don't have to just be seen as something that goes in the fruitcake once a year. You can put them in many different types of dishes. Remember, you just need a few in a dish. You don't need half a bag of something in a dish. 

They are good for constipation. Now, you can make up a raisin tea like you can make a prune tea. Now, a prune tea is one of my favorites for constipation. You should get three prunes or four prunes, you put them in a cup, you know, about eight or 10 ounces of hot water on top, and you let that sit. Then you drink that. Give it a stir, and then drink it. 

Now with raisins, you put a tablespoon of raisins in a cup, boiling water, stir, stir, stir, and then drink, drink, drink, and then eventually drink the solids on the bottom. Very, very good laxative, very good cleanse. Gentle, but effective. 

So I do like raisins, especially if you get organic ones and good quality ones. Just remember, if you bloat, fart, have constipation or diarrhea that's really bad, you may want to be cautious, and may even want to consider getting a stool test before you eat dried fruits in your diet to see if you've got candida there or lots of dysbiotic bacteria that can be going to town on the raisins.
 
If your gut is in reasonably good condition, and you've got constipation, and you know you haven't got a bad candida problem, it's certainly worth putting some raisins in there, okay. Give it a try.

It's quite enjoyable. Thanks for tuning in.

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