Do we have to eat fruit alone or in the morning?......

Okay, I heard that fruit ferments in your stomach if you eat it at the same time as other foods.  Yuck...just sits there and rots.  Well, since I am drinking my green drinks with fruit...blueberries, strawberries and bananas...and in the name of being healthy...I thought I should find out for sure.

"How long does this vital process take? It depends on what you're eating, Dr. Oz says. "A steak dinner can take you two, maybe three days to get out of your intestine. What that means is the way you digest it is basically to rot it in your intestines. On the other hand, if you eat vegetables and fruits, they're out of your system in less than 12 hours." "http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/facing-faqs

In the book "Ultra Metabolism, on page 213"  Dr. Hyman recommends small snacks of fruit and nuts in the morning or afternoon. 

A. “The answer is a definite no,” said Dr. Mark Pochapin, director of the Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. “Fruit can be eaten at any time.”

Nothing can rot in the stomach, Dr. Pochapin said. Rotting, or fermentation, means bacterial action on food resulting in decomposition. And because of the presence of hydrochloric acid, the stomach has very few bacteria.

“One of the main purposes of the stomach,” he said, “is to sterilize food by mixing and churning it within the muscular, acid-containing stomach.”

In the days before refrigeration and supermarkets, food spoiled easily, and stomach acid helped protect the body from food poisoning, he said.

“The place where fruit produces gas is in the colon, not the stomach,” Dr. Pochapin said. The colon is loaded with bacteria and acts as the body’s sewage system.

Food takes 6 to 10 hours to reach the colon, which explains why it does not really matter when fruit is eaten, Dr. Pochapin said. Fruit contains sugar and vitamins, which are absorbed in the small intestine, and complex fibers, which pass through the gastrointestinal tract without much digestion. When the fiber reaches the colon, the colonic bacteria feed on the fiber and produce gas as a byproduct, regardless of when and with what the fiber was ingested.  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/science/23qna.html

There it is...the answer is no...eat fruit whenever we want and with whatever we want!  ~Cathy