To not drink tea if I've just had a piece of fruit?

[PuppyMonkey]

I was always told the tanin interferes with the absorption of the vitamins in fruit, so you'd be undoing all the good of your banana, apple etc.

I have to wait at least half an hour before having a cup of tea, otherwise I get all het up about it.

Work colleagues tell me I am a loon.

Am I?

have never heard that before. You eat your fruit and you drink your tea when you want.

If you get all het up about it though, I might think you are a bit of a loon tbh though! lol

I'm the Gillian mckeith of our office, right enough.

I would never eat them together anyway, they don't go.

I don't take my vitamins the same time as I have a cup of tea for that same reason.

yanbu - if a bit obsessive .

urgh I wouldn't admit to being anything like Gillian McKeith. Have you seen her on I'm a Celeb? She's foul.

Do you examine your workmates' poo?

I think the human digestive system can outsmart a cup of tea and a piece of fruit any day... Getting 'het up' and stressed on the other hand will increase your production of insulin & adrenalin and that's really not a good thing on a regular basis :)

When I say het up, I don't mean I start shrieking and doing a comedy swoon like Gillian, it's more like I go: " ooh that's not right at all, no sirree". And then I just get on with my work or whatever. But it does make me feel a bit uncomfortable, the thought of it.

Don't examine poo too closely at our place, not a good idea.

Puppy I read this too! I used to never eat fruit and drink coffee or tea with it.

Life's too short to plan coffee/ fruit rota so now I just do it and figure that with the amount of fruit I can now eat on Weight Watchers I must be getting at least some of the vitamins through to my system intact!

Feel the fear and do it anyway! Or some shit like that!

And what if you're eating red grapes... which are fruit.... and also contain tannin? As I said before, your digestion is perfectly capapble of coping with all these things together.

Grapes have tanin in? Wowsers didn't know that. Not entirely even sure what tannin is anyway, tbh. I may have to have a rethink.

Tannins are a naturally occurring compound in plants which provide a characteristically bitter flavour... believed to be a plant defence mechanism of the 'don't eat me' school :) Found in bark, leaves and immature fruit. So any fruit with a slightly bitter note... berries, grapes, pomegranate, that kind of thing... contains tannin.

oohh, what about tomatoes? Do these count as a fruit?

Isn't tannin all the lovely brown stuff that gets stuck to your mug?

(puts kettle on for a brew)

Tomatoes contain different amounts of tannin depending on how ripe they are.

Tannin is the lovely brown stuff in your tea and (totally guessing) I bet it is the 'lovely' black stuff that stains your lips when you drink red wine.

Can't stand tomatoes, I'm a bit scared of them.

Starting to think I am a loon actually.

you cannot be scared of tomatoes

dd htes them too. I love tomatoes so long as they are proper ones, not those watery greenhouse rubbishy ones that tasted of nothing.

'Scared' of tomatoes?...

I read that drinking tea of coffee inhibits the absorption of iron, never heard it about vitamins. During pregnancy I always had low iron levels so would avoid tea when eating food with high iron levels.

I would keep it to myself though, and not try and persuade others to do the same.

I don't like the seeds in raw tomatoes, see. Horrid things that get stuck everywhere, shudders.

Most fruit including strawberries blueberries contain tannin

ok the seeds lol

don't tell your colleagues that you are scared of tomatoes though. That's my advice

I once saw a recipe that asked for tonnes of peeled and de-seeded tomatoes. Made me laugh out loud - what a faff.

PuppyMonkey - do you feel healthier for abstaining from a cuppa after fruit? If so, more power to you. In fact, hats off that you eat fruit, many people are fruit and veg dodgers where I work

They already know about the tomatoes thing.

Yay hats off to me!