Is food advice right?

[Artistic]

I have just found out I am pregnant and have been told to avoid, in addition to those foods normally mentioned, lemons, almonds and pearl barley. Does anyone have any comments about these foods?

[Jina4416]

Firstly, congratulations! Everything apart from the ones mentioned not eat are perfectly safe to eat in a balanced amount. I never heard about not eating lemon! I usually limit the amount of warming foods such as nuts and ginger. As they raise body temperature and it’s not good for baby to get too warm. Plus- no hot showers! Here’s a link or cold and warm foods

pingminghealth.com/article/...

Good luck!

[jenna01]

Never heard of having to avoid those 3, I’ve had loads of almonds and foods with almonds in so hoping that’s not true 😅 also heard lemon was really good during pregnancy - but the advice changes all the time. I’d be interested to know the reasoning behind avoiding them

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Told by who?

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Congratulations on your pregnancy. I generally go by the nhs website and it doesn't say that these foods should be avoided. I eat nuts, particulaly almonds, and lemon on an almost daily basis and I'm 20 weeks pregnant.