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12 Foods That Fight the Flu
May 19, 2024
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12 Foods That Fight the Flu
Toast
While talking about toast as a vessel for your immune-boosting garlic, let’s not forget the importance of toast as part of the BRAT diet. Toast or crackers are great, bland foods to take the edge off of your hunger and upset stomach when your body can’t handle much food.
Hot Tea
Green tea, oolong and black tea offer drinkers a dose of disease-busting antioxidants, while breathing in the steam from the tea can help ease your congestion. Adding a spoonful of honey and a squeeze of lemon also do wonders for easing sore throats. For those with sensitivity to caffeine, you can try decaf or herbal teas instead.
Bananas
Bananas are one of the easiest fruits on the stomach. Along with rice, applesauce and toast, bananas are an important part of the BRAT diet, which is the list of foods that doctors encourage people to eat when they are recovering from the flu or other stomach bugs and are ready to start trying solid foods.
Rice
White rice, another member of the BRAT diet, is easy on the stomach and gives your digestive system a chance to rest and recover, especially when you’ve been suffering from diarrhea.
Applesauce
Applesauce, the final member of the BRAT pack, along with apple juice, is also a bland food that helps keep you hydrated while minimizing diarrhea. Applesauce has minimal amounts of fiber but is still full of good sugars and calories to help ease hunger and help your body bounce back from the flu.
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