Top flop food combos you should avoid!

By: Dr NK Sharma | | Updated: February 4, 2015 10:59 pm

Have you ever wondered why you pair certain foods together? Is it simply for taste or is there any scientific or logical explanation behind it? The truth is our digestive system cannot process everything we eat at the same time. For this precise purpose, we need to be careful of what we eat at a given time. Our expert Dr NK Sharma tells us what food combination is good and what isn’t for our digestive system. Also Read - 5 food combinations that you must avoid if you want to enjoy good health

Food combination refers to the best combination of foods that can be eaten together in the same meal to ensure easy and perfect digestion. Different foods require different body enzymes for digestion. For example, protein requires an absolutely acidic environment in the stomach and starchy food requires alkaline environment. The stomach of course cannot possibly be acidic and alkaline at the same time. As students of chemistry will tell you, acid and base (alkaline), neutralize each other. So if you eat starch with protein, digestion is impaired or completely arrested. Undigested food mass is apt for bacterial worms and parasitic developments and can lead to various ailments of the stomach. Here’s how one should pair their foods. Also Read - Breakthrough discovery - Protein that supports growth of bowel cancers identified

Why eating acidic fruits and starch is a bad combination Also Read - Have more protein: It will make you strong and keep liver diseases away

Acidic fruits like lemon, tomato, tamarind, etc destroy ptyalin, a salivary alkaline enzyme and inhibit starch digestion. In the presence of acids, no alkaline juices are property secreted which causes gas and fermentation.

Why combining different types of protein is a bad idea

Our body has different kinds of mechanism to digest different food items and if we eat proteins of different combinations, only one of them will be efficiently digested by our body. Another point is that the body secretes a particular kind of enzyme at a given time so spreading out your protein intake over the day will result in better digestion.

The body processes meat in the first hour of digestion and milk in the last hour so eating them accordingly will yield in better digestion. However, eating different kinds of meat and nuts at one go isn’t a problem.

Eggs also receive digestive secretions at a different time than meat or milk so eating them separately is a good idea.

So think before you cook or eat your meals. Watch this space for more articles on the right food combination.

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Published : July 10, 2013 9:59 am | Updated:February 4, 2015 10:59 pm

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