Proper nutrition involves not only eating quality foods, but also combining them with each other. Their digestibility, and therefore their benefit or harm to the body, depends on what ingredients are mixed in the finished dish. What foods should not be eaten together? We'll talk about this below.
Today we know a lot about healthy eating. But we forget that by mixing incompatible products, we get various ailments in the form of indigestion, increased gas formation, heartburn and a feeling of heaviness.
We eat fruits separately!
Fruits often act as dessert. They are light and leave a pleasant aftertaste. But hot dishes eaten before fruit take much longer to digest. Therefore, the fruit begins to rot in the stomach. You cannot refuse them. Fruit intake should be postponed to a later date. For example, 40 minutes after eating.
Sweet fruits
When it comes to sweet fruit combinations, bananas, persimmons, figs, melon and papaya immediately come to mind. It is also customary to include various dried fruits in this group: raisins, dried apricots, dates, prunes.
Such fruits are ideally combined with each other, as well as with semi-acidic foods. Most often they are added to various smoothies and salads. It is this excellent combination of fruits and dried fruits that allows you to create store-bought mixes of dried fruits and nuts, which are a great addition to oatmeal or natural yogurt.
Various seafood in one dish
Vegetable salad with seafood
Salads with seafood cocktail are known to many lovers of a healthy lifestyle. They saturate perfectly, but leave a feeling of heaviness. You cannot combine several types of seafood in one dish. Therefore, shrimp are eaten separately from crabs, fish, and mussels. It is better to supplement seafood with vegetables, which allow all the beneficial components to be absorbed faster.
Combination of fruits in a cake
Here the fruit combination is incredibly important, because if you break the existing rules, you can simply destroy all the baked goods. So if you decide to make a delicious cake with fruit, then it’s best not to get too fancy with the biscuits and the cream itself to prevent possible over-tasting of flavors. The most successful fruits that can be added to baked goods are: kiwi, bananas, pear, mango, orange or tangerine pulp, pineapples, peaches and melon.
When choosing fruits for the filling, it is very important to ensure that they are quite soft and not particularly sour, and do not stand out with their flavors against the background of delicate baked goods and do not completely drown them out. Under no circumstances should apricots, apples or hard pears be added to cakes - they are best left for pies.
What foods should not be combined with milk?
Milk is a food, not a drink. Therefore, it should be taken as a separate meal. Milk does not go well with eggs, sweets, chocolate, garlic, fish, bananas. One of the most insidious combinations is herring and milk. The mix can cause discomfort in the stomach, ranging from banal bloating and fermentation to severe poisoning. It is not recommended to make smoothies from banana and milk. A feeling of heaviness and slow digestion are guaranteed. If you don’t want to give up such healthy smoothies, then choose very ripe bananas and add spices to the smoothie to speed up digestion.
The most ideal combinations
Of course, if you are a fan of experimentation, you can try to create combinations yourself by trial and error. However, some of the most delicious fruit combinations are now known. Here are some of the most popular ones:
- apricots go great with peaches, plums and oranges;
- The combination of pears and apples together looks good;
- an exotic option would be a mixture of banana, papaya and mango;
- to prepare a tropical dessert, you can combine banana, coconut and pineapple;
- lime, apple and plum also perfectly complement each other's flavors;
- if you manage to find lychees in your purchase, then they should be added to dishes with citrus fruits;
- oranges and tangerines, like other citrus fruits, go well with grapes;
- Nectarines, apricots, pears and plums seasoned with lemon juice are perfect for a fruit salad;
- grapefruits can be added to tropical fruits;
- interesting taste sensations can be obtained from a mixture of pomegranates and apples.
Cucumbers and tomatoes: what nutritionists say about the traditional combination
Cucumbers and tomatoes are the basis of many salads. Especially in the summer, they are consumed a lot. Nutritionists say that these products are not compatible with each other. The fact is that cucumbers are alkaline foods, and tomatoes are acidic. Therefore, the effect on the body is different. Cucumbers are digested first. While the tomatoes are waiting their turn, they begin to ferment. Bloating will not keep you waiting! For the same reason, tomatoes should not be combined with eggplants, lemon, or yogurt.
Sour fruits
Let's look at sour fruits last. These generally include all citrus fruits (tangerines, oranges, lemons, grapefruits, pomelo, lime). However, in addition to them, kiwi, pomegranates and pineapples can be included in this group. In rare cases, some nutritionists also include sour varieties of apples, pears and other fruits in this group.
As for the combination of fruits, it is worth knowing: they combine very well with each other, but in extremely small quantities. The best option would be to combine them with semi-sweet fruits - pears with tangerines and apples with kiwi taste especially good. Often these flavor combinations are considered the best. However, you should know that under no circumstances should you combine sweet and sour fruits with each other. Not only will they taste very disharmonious, but such a diet can also lead to fermentation processes in the stomach, so the food will be poorly digested. In the most extreme cases, such combinations with frequent use led to the development of ulcers or gastritis.
Oatmeal with milk and citrus fruits
As we have already found out, it is better to eat fruits separately. But many adherents of a healthy diet, trying to diversify their daily diet, add citrus fruits: oranges, tangerines, grapefruit to oatmeal cooked in milk. Vitamin C destroys enzymes that help digest starchy foods. In addition, the increased acidity of citrus fruits turns milk into curds, which leads to bloating and gas formation.
It is important to understand which foods cannot be combined with each other so that the food is as healthy as possible and does not cause unpleasant consequences. Using incompatible products does not mean that the dish will be tasteless. It will likely be less useful.
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What are the benefits of fruits?
Doctors definitely recommend including at least 5 servings of a variety of vegetables and fruits in your diet every day. And this is not at all accidental, since these products have a positive effect on the health of the body. Eg:
- The beneficial substances present in bananas, apricots, grapefruits and peaches help strengthen the cardiovascular system.
- For problems with the gastrointestinal tract, doctors recommend eating melons, pears and pineapples.
- All citrus fruits are very useful for strengthening the immune system, so they are especially recommended to be consumed in winter to provide protection against colds.
So if a person knows the right combination of fruits, then he can provide himself with a completely healthy snack that will improve the functioning of several internal organs at once.
Proper nutrition
Quite often, people believe that if they start eating vegetables and fruits, then they are automatically eating healthy. However, this is not at all true, since salads prepared from products that are simply at hand are not often healthy and tasty. It is very important to know what the right combinations of fruits and vegetables are so that you can prepare lunch without causing a real riot in the digestive system.
For example, the main rule is that you should never combine acids and starch with each other. That is, it is best not to eat sour and semi-acidic fruits at the same meal with potatoes or bread. Such combinations lead to the fact that all beneficial enzymes are neutralized among themselves and the products simply stop being digested.
It would also be better not to combine sugar and fats, that is, fruits with other foods that are rich in fatty acids - these include avocados and olives.
Baking combinations
If you decide to create the ideal combination of berries and fruits in a cake, then attention should be paid to the following variations:
- Strawberries, which are most often added to vanilla sponge cakes, can be added to peaches, oranges, bananas, cherries and kiwis. These combinations will only increase the level of taste of the berry itself, giving it new facets.
- Raspberries are a truly versatile berry that goes well with other fruits. It can be added to cakes with oranges, plums, apricots and cherries. It is best to prepare dark sponge cakes for this cake, since raspberries refresh the taste of dark chocolate very advantageously.
- Cherries in cakes also go well with pineapples, plums, citrus fruits, raspberries and strawberries. Such baked goods, especially if you add spices like cinnamon, will have new, unusual, but very pleasant flavors.
Fruit and berry combinations
Berries are an incredibly tasty delicacy that simply amazes with smells and tastes. Therefore, if you create the right combination of fruits and berries, you can get the perfect dessert or cocktail. Now let's talk about the ideal combinations of these two products:
- Cranberries should be combined with sweet fruits, since the berry itself is sour. So if you make cranberry juice, then mango, as well as sweet pears and apples, are ideal for it.
- It would be best to serve lingonberries with oranges, black currants or green apples, which will slightly soften the existing bitterness.
- Surprisingly, sea buckthorn seems to be able to combine almost perfectly with all fruits that are orange in color. So you can safely put it in dishes with oranges, pineapples, apricots, bananas and persimmons.
- But it is very difficult to combine currants with fruits - they are best in harmony with other berries - lingonberries, raspberries, cranberries and blackberries;
- Blueberries reveal their multifaceted taste better together with oranges. However, such combinations are not very good in baking, so they are most often used when preparing alcoholic cocktails.
Correct combination of vegetables and fruits
Individually, fruits and vegetables are incredibly beneficial for the body, as they contain huge amounts of essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals for the body. You need to know how to combine them correctly in order to get the greatest benefit:
- to strengthen the immune system, you can combine carrots and apples in a salad;
- to improve the color and texture of the skin, the ideal option would be a combination of tomatoes, apples and carrots;
- It is believed that the simultaneous combination of cucumbers, celery and apples is an excellent preventive measure to prevent the development of cancer, and also helps lower cholesterol;
- apples, pineapples and watermelons in combination help cleanse the body and remove all harmful waste and toxins from it, as well as improve the functioning of the kidneys and liver.
Of course, not all combinations known in cooking are given here. However, if you know the rules that should be followed when combining, then achieving significant results will be very simple. So if you have the rudiments of knowledge, you can start cooking on your own and creating new tastes in food.
