Pineapple

There’s an enzyme called bromelain in pineapple which has potentially been linked to starting labour but the evidence is really poor, and I’ve read somewhere recently that you’d have to eat 8-12 whole pineapples for it to have any effect 😅 It’s also very acidic so could give you heartburn, and it can give you an upset tummy if you eat too much so I’d go easy on it personally!

The lady who ran our antenatal class said you’d have to eat a huge amount of pineapple in order for it to do anything of note.

Nothing 😆 it's also pineapple core that contains the most bromelain so you'd have to eat the hard but, and looooooads of it. There has been a study where I think they dropped pineapple juice onto the dissected uterus of animals (rats I think) and they saw "contractions" of the uterine tissue, but that's literally as far as the data goes 😆 It's popular in the IVF community as bromelain is thought I reduce inflammation so many people eat it for that? I wonder if it's a spill over from the IVF community too

Had pineapple for lunch to test this theory and don’t feel any different (small portion tho tbf😂)