Do you know, overcoming acne problem is not only done by medication from the outside, but you also need to be careful on what you eat to prevent the acne worsen. What kind of foods you shouldn’t eat when you’re having acne problem? Let’s find out below!

Foods You Shouldn’t Eat When You’re Having Acne Problem

1. Chocolate

Many people thought that chocolate has become the cause of acne. Well, it’s not wrong, but it only happen when you eat the chocolate excessively. The chocolate has high sugar content that can lower your immunity that enable bacteria or virus entering your body, whether through foods or nostrils. It can later cause the acne to appear on your skin.

2. Fried Potato

Fried potato contains high fat and will increase the appearance of acne on your skin. The fat on its oil content will affect hormone’s work that will make pimples appear and later become acne’s problem.

3. Spinach

Spinach has a very good nutrients for the body, but it won’t be good for you when you have acne problem. The spinach has high content of iodine that can trigger skin tissue damage on the face skin and cause acne to appear.

4. Peanut

Peanut has high content of fat as well. If you eat it too much, it can make the face skin become oilier. The oilier skin is prone to have skin’s problem like acne because the oilier skin will catch the dirt causing pore’s clogging and make you have comedo and acne.

5. Shrimp and Lobster

Shrimp and lobster has a lot of metal substances and iodine that can trigger the acne’s appearance. For people with iodine allergy, their face will have acne after consuming them.

6. Milk

Ordinary milk has high content of fat that make acne appear more on your face skin. If you love drinking milk so much, better reduce the portion or choose the milk with low-fat content.

7. Strawberry

You might be surprised to find this fruit on this list. But yes, as much strawberry contain good nutrients for the body, it has high acid that trigger the appearance of acne in your face skin too. So, if you’ve already have acne, you’d better avoid consuming this fruit for a while.

8. Coffee Drinks

Coffee is a tasty drink cannot be avoided by many people. If you are a coffee lover too but now still having acne problem, start to stop drinking it for a while until the acne is gone. The coffee has high caffeine content that can increase a stress-hormone. As you know, the stress can cause acne on your skin.

9. Cheese

Cheese contains glucose and oil. When it’s excessively consumed, it can disturb the stability of immunity in the body and trigger the appearance of pimples that can be acne later.

10. Breads

Breads has a lot of starch and sugar that can’t be quickly absorbed by the body. If you consume it too much, it will cause acne on your face skin too, especially on the forehead and cheeks.

11. Too salty foods

Foods that has too much salt in it should be avoided as well when you have acne problem. It’s because the salt can’t absorb water and hinder nutrition to spread to whole body. It later caused acne to appear on your face skin.

Alright, we’ve now reached the bottom of the list of foods you shouldn’t eat when you’re having acne problem. Is there any foods above that is your favorite? Hmm, be careful eating it for your own benefit. Thank you for reading and see you again!