Eating fruit before bed isn't a bad idea, but you should keep your meal small or eat it a few hours before bed, to avoid having the meal itself disrupt your sleep.

If you could choose the foods that would help you sleep better, would you choose them? And if you could identify the foods that would interfere with your restful sleep, would you avoid them? Paying attention to what you eat and drink can help you improve the quality of your sleep.

Tryptophan was discovered by Frederick Hopkins in 1901, as an aromatic amino acid. Hopkins isolated tryptophan from the digestion of casein by the pancreas, from 600 g of crude casein, 4.8 g of tryptophan was obtained.