{"id":406821,"date":"2026-05-01T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406821\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:27:08","slug":"do-mangoes-cause-body-heat-what-happens-when-you-eat-too-many-mangoes-doctor-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/406821\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Mangoes cause body heat? What happens when you eat too many Mangoes, doctor explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of \u201cheat-producing foods\u201d is common in traditional food wisdom. But modern nutrition looks at things a little differently.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Karuna Chaturvedi, Head &#8211; Clinical Nutrition, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Noida, explains, \u201cMangoes are often described as a warm fruit, while, scientifically speaking, food is identified more for its chemical composition as opposed to whether it&#8217;s classified as warm or cold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She adds that mangoes contain natural sugars and plant compounds like mangiferin. These can slightly increase heat production in the body during digestion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough there will be an increase in the amount of heat experienced immediately following the consumption of mangoes, it will not create any increase in the person&#8217;s core body temperature like there will be from a fever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In simple terms, mangoes don\u2019t actually raise body temperature. What people feel is a mild warmth linked to metabolism, and this varies from person to person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The idea of \u201cheat-producing foods\u201d is common in traditional food wisdom. But modern nutrition looks at things a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[209484,209485,134,65634,209482,209483,111,139,556,69],"class_list":["post-406821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-body-heat-and-mangoes","tag-does-mango-makes-our-body-heat","tag-health","tag-mango","tag-mango-sugar-content-effects","tag-mangoes","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nutrition","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}