We don’t think about the compatibility of products when we get to the festive table. Later we complain of feeling unwell, citing poor quality preparation. In fact, we ate a lot of different delicious things and paid for it. With such indiscriminateness, eating melon as a dessert can have a special effect. Let’s figure out what you can’t eat melon with and why.
What we know about product compatibility
A product incompatibility table has long been developed. She indicates what can be eaten at one meal, and which dishes are best shared. The point, translated into the language of the average consumer, is that in order to decompose foods into their components, a different composition of gastric juice is required for each product. They were grouped according to acidity and ability to decompose. In this case, easy decomposition of food occurs, and the stomach is not overloaded.
If foods that require different components in the gastric juice are served at the same time, then they mutually neutralize each other and digestion proceeds slowly, heaviness and other problems arise. That is why they talk about the compatibility of products for simultaneous use.
Types of products that are included in a person’s menu:
- proteins that require acidic enzymes for digestion;
- sour plant foods;
- slightly acidic, non-starchy plant foods;
- starchy foods fermented in an alkaline environment.
The traditional second course, meat with a side dish of porridge, is poorly digestible, but with a side dish of cabbage it is well digested. If you eat food incorrectly, it is poorly digested, and most of the nutrients go to waste.
The wonderful vitamin greens of lettuce and spinach lose their benefits completely when salt is added. Green tea with milk is a useless combination. Coffee and a sandwich mutually destroy usefulness.
Melon is incompatible with any products. It is eaten in intervals between meals of other food, which are at least two hours. The same incompatible products include fresh milk. This is a protein product, but in an acidic environment it coagulates.
Why can't you eat melon with other foods?
Melon belongs to the pumpkin family and is a close relative. Since its appearance on the tables of the nobility, it has become a favorite dessert. No one knew then that eating melon incorrectly could cause death. After the death of another lover of food, it happened that the servants of the poisoners were executed. Later we realized that melon cannot be a dessert. Its taste and aroma are enjoyed at the moment when the stomach is unloaded and ready to accept a new portion of food.
It turns out that the sweet vegetable will stay in the stomach for a matter of minutes, and the melon mass will be digested in the intestines. If you prevent it, keep it in your stomach, you won’t end up with problems. Here it will quickly ferment without being digested, with all the consequences - flatulence, diarrhea, colic, nausea. Therefore, to fully enjoy the honeyed taste of Charju melon, you need to empty your stomach and slowly put a piece into your mouth with a fork, closing your eyes in pleasure. This eating will bring many benefits. This is why melon should be eaten separately from other foods.
Low-calorie product contains 35 Kcal per 100 g, but contains:
- energy components are mainly carbohydrates;
- alimentary fiber;
- vitamins and minerals.
However, there is 10 times more iron in melon than in chicken meat and milk. There is 120 mg of potassium, a lot of nicotinic acid, vitamin C. Due to the high concentration of folic acid, the product is recommended for people with weakened brain activity and the elderly. Melon is also useful for liver diseases, anemia, and diseases of the cardiovascular system. The substance seperoxide dismutase, present in melon, restores peace of mind and relieves fatigue.
At the same time, the sweet product is not recommended for weight loss for people with diabetes. For medicinal purposes, melon is introduced into the diet under the supervision of a doctor. To confirm that melon is an independent product that is incompatible with others, we present the body’s reaction to the simultaneous intake of different components:
- Melon with milk or fermented milk products will create a strong laxative effect. Therefore, you should not buy yogurt with melon for children. Despite the assurances of manufacturers, if the products are natural, diarrhea will not take long to occur.
- You can’t eat melon on an empty stomach, otherwise problems with bloating and nausea will begin. This is dangerous for those who have problems with the gastrointestinal tract.
- Alcohol and melon are incompatible. There are three ways of problems here. Some complain of severe constipation, others pass the GTO standards along the way. There are still others who are taken away by ambulance for gastric lavage.
- Nursing mothers should not eat melon. The baby will inevitably have loose stools. All mothers are afraid of this, since dehydration of the child’s body immediately sets in.
- It is also not recommended to drink melon with water; fermentation, colic and diarrhea may soon occur.
Combination leads to trouble and explains why melon cannot be eaten with other foods. A special place is occupied by the interaction of two healing products, honey and melon in the stomach.
Why can't you eat melon with honey?
Since ancient times, the order has been passed down not to eat melon with honey. In those days, intestinal obstruction was called volvulus. So, it was believed that honey with melon creates a stone in the intestines, the patency is impaired, and terrible torment awaits the person.
However, there are people who eat honey and melon at the same time without consequences. Doctors believe that the compatibility of melon and honey, even for a healthy person, is questionable. For those who have undergone abdominal surgery and have adhesions and scars, they may develop intestinal obstruction. Therefore, it is not worth risking your health and turning two healing products into an explosive mixture for the body. There are only a few people who always eat melon with honey and do not experience any discomfort. Before you conduct an experiment, think about who needs this?
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The science of healthy eating, diets, and cooking can be called a set of useful rules. About products and preparation, calories and calculations, about the ingredients of dishes and their compatibility. , which, interacting, give the body all its benefits, see on our website. But there are also a number of foods that nutritionists do not recommend consuming together. After all, not only the taste of the food itself, but also its effect on health and figure sometimes depends on the combination of components. What products cannot be combined and why – this is discussed in our review of “imperfect neighbors”. Note that we are talking about a one-time meal, and the principle of intolerance is based on the chemical reactions of micro- and macroelements and natural processes in the human gastrointestinal tract.
List of foods that cannot be combined
Cheese sandwich
The popularity rating of the “standard cheese sandwich” is off the charts. But nutritionists warn: the combination of a starchy product (bread) and protein-rich cheese is not the best option for the stomach. Starch and protein are broken down by various enzymes. You are eating a sandwich. The body will begin to digest “cheese” proteins first. And the “bread” starch, under the influence of enzymes, will begin to decompose at this time.
Rye bread with coffee
Such products cannot be combined with each other, although some do just that. Caffeine is an antioxidant and psychostimulant that interferes with the absorption of many vitamins and minerals. It’s better to drink a cup of coffee “without load”. And rye bread (bread) in the form of a sandwich is an excellent snack.
Omelette with ham (bacon) and grated cheese
A combination familiar to everyone. But for one meal, the body will have enough of one serving of protein, and not its “triple” norm. Such “protein abundance” is unlikely to add vigor and strength, but it can negatively affect the digestion process. A lot is not always good. But an omelette with vegetables for breakfast is just right.
Cheese and meat
An imperfect pairing, although such juxtaposition of products in many dishes is widespread. Plant and animal protein is digested by gastric juice of varying concentrations and acidity. And phosphorus, which cheese is rich in, slows down the absorption of zinc, which is found in meat.
Spaghetti with tomato sauce and cheese
Tomatoes (tomatoes) are classified as acidic ingredients in nutrition. Nutritionists do not recommend mixing them with starchy carbohydrates. The combination of malic, oxalic and citric acids is incompatible with the alkaline breakdown of starch in the mouth and absorption in the stomach. And if you add more cheese in the topping, then such a complex combination will cause heaviness in the stomach after eating.
Cucumbers & tomatoes
What products cannot be combined with each other? - Cucumbers and tomatoes. - Are you surprised? Imagine us too. After all, these vegetables are considered salad classics and are often eaten together. But cucumbers from the category of alkaline products are absolutely incompatible with the acidic environment of tomatoes! Fresh vegetables are digested in different ways: while cucumbers are digested, tomatoes “ferment” and “puff” the stomach. In addition, the cucumber enzyme with the tricky name axorbate oxidase completely destroys the vitamin C contained in tomatoes.
Buckwheat with milk
In the compatibility test, these products also take their “honorable” place. Milk is not digested in the stomach, but in the small intestine (duodenum). Once in the stomach, milk becomes a curdled mass that envelops the food that is there. As a result, all the vitamins and microelements of the products take a long time to “break through” to the exit. In addition, milk rich in calcium reduces the absorption of iron contained in buckwheat by 2 times.
Kiwi with yogurt
Tropical kiwi (Chinese gooseberry) is a popular addition to milkshakes, yogurts and smoothies. But if you use natural products, then kiwi enzymes, promoting the accelerated decomposition of milk proteins, make the milk mass taste bitter.
Sour cream and eggs
The presence of foods rich in fat and protein foods on the same plate does not bode well. Sour cream exhibits its “inhibitory” effect in tandem, slowing down the process of gastric juice secretion. And eggs are a concentrated protein for the digestion of which the gastrointestinal tract needs to produce a lot of digestive enzymes and acids.
Potato with meat
Everyone's favorite dish. But... nutritionists do not recommend combining proteins and carbohydrates together. Why? – Potatoes (carbohydrates) are digested in the gastrointestinal tract with the help of alkaline enzymes in saliva. And meat (proteins) in the small intestine, with the help of pancreatic acids. School chemistry course teaches that an acid neutralizes an alkali. In our case, this means that there may be stagnation in the digestion process.
Fruits as dessert
Juicy fruits do not like company, but we are used to ending a festive feast with a fruit dessert. Fruits are good as a snack or meal on their own. Absorbed quickly - in 30–60 minutes. Therefore, you shouldn’t throw foods with different digestion times into your stomach like a “furnace”. This is an additional burden on the gastrointestinal tract. Hot dishes take longer to digest, and while waiting for their turn, the fruit will begin to “rot” right in the stomach.
Melon with bread
Interestingly, many people eat melon with bread, thinking in this way to ease the severity of the product for digestion and its “laxative” effect. By the way, melon does not tolerate competitors. None! From the stomach it immediately goes to the intestines. And bread (carbohydrates) is digested more slowly. Products will interfere with each other's absorption.
Beer and peanuts
This popular "company" has many fans. But... groundnuts (peanuts) belong to the legume family, and nuts are nothing more than beans from the point of view of botanists. Beer is a specific product; moreover, it contains ethyl alcohol. Can you imagine a heavy mixture? – Very high-calorie peanuts, which have the properties of increased gas formation and bloating (legumes, after all). And a drink with a complex chemical composition, prepared as a result of fermentation processes. To the question: what foods cannot be combined when losing weight? The answer is clear - beer with peanuts.
Alcohol and cola
Another common combination. Cola is a highly acidic drink (it’s not for nothing that people use it as a “cleaner”); it contains a lot of caffeine, which enhances the removal of fluid from the body. Alcohol, by the way, too. Acting on different centers of the brain, alcohol relaxes, cola excites. The brain needs to “think” in order to adequately respond to two opposing actions in one impulse. The body will not be happy with such a reactive cocktail.
Ultimately, it all comes down to the individual characteristics of the body. Do not give your body a reason to “swear” for the wrong combination of foods eaten.
Ecology of consumption: It turns out that there are a lot of incompatible products that should not be consumed together. Some of them are quite popular, but are a waste of money and waste of food if consumed with incompatible foods
Everyone knows from childhood that you can’t eat herring with milk or honey with melon. You can read in many places that this can lead to severe poisoning and even death.
It turns out that there are a lot of incompatible foods that should not be consumed together. Some of them are quite popular, but are a waste of money and waste of food if consumed with incompatible foods.
Let's look at the most common mistakes and those cases when the use of certain products with each other is completely pointless.
Rye bread with coffee
This combination of products falls into the category of meaningless. The sandwich itself on rye bread or crispbread is an excellent breakfast, rich in vitamins and minerals. A cup of coffee is an antioxidant. The problem is that caffeine interferes with the absorption of many beneficial substances. It is better to consume these products separately from each other.
We eat tomatoes with almost everything. However, they should not be eaten with any starchy food. The fact is that the combination of citric, malic and oxalic acids contained in them is contraindicated for alkaline digestion of starches in the mouth and stomach.
Starch is found in cereals and potatoes, so it's worth eating something else with them. And tomatoes are best eaten with leafy vegetables and fats.
Kiwi is often added to milkshakes and smoothies. Doctors believe that people are doing this in vain. The enzyme contained in kiwi promotes the accelerated decomposition of milk protein, which is why the taste of milk and dairy products becomes bitter. Of course, if you use a natural dairy product.
Another pointless waste of money is frying in olive oil. Just like any other heating of it. It is, of course, much healthier than the simple one, but when heated it loses all its best properties. It should only be used cold: in salads and cold sauces.
We are talking about jam, syrups, sugar and other sweets. The fact is that, together with proteins and starchy foods, sweets cause fermentation and contribute to the decomposition of other products. It is best to separate the consumption of bread and jam. The only exception is honey.
It would seem quite common to sprinkle spinach and lettuce with salt, but it turns out that salt draws the liquid out of the lettuce and spinach, and all the beneficial substances come out with it. Actually, this only means that the greens become useless.
This combination of products gives an amazing reaction. In the stomach it turns out something like an explosion in a small chemical plant. The effects of such mixing of products will last for many hours. The result is belching, heaviness in the stomach and discomfort. Avoid drinking dairy and carbonated drinks in a row.
We are all used to ending a grand feast with dessert in the form of fruit. But this should not be done under any circumstances. The first hot dishes take much longer to digest than the fruit, and it will take at least half an hour for them to get their turn. During this time, the fruit will begin to rot right in the stomach. Save this treat for a later time.
You will be provided with a laxative effect if you risk drinking the melon you just ate with milk, kefir or any other dairy product.
A swollen face and swelling will be ensured by combining watermelon with any salty foods. This combination retains fluid in the body, of which there is a lot in watermelon.
This combination is probably known to everyone as an example of what should not be eaten together. Although in reality this is where everything is very individual. For some, this combination can cause fermentation in the stomach, for others - poisoning. Herring that gets into the stomach along with milk will oxidize it, and it will immediately curdle. Take breaks between eating these foods.
Even useful products can turn out to be useless or even harmful when combined with others that seem to be equally useful.
Everyone knows that herring or fresh cucumbers cannot be consumed with milk. But this is not the only “wrong” combination of foods that can cause fermentation or even upset in the gastrointestinal tract. But many of us make such food mistakes every day, without even coming to the connection between bloating and what was eaten.
Ice cream and carbonated drinks are not allowed
Among teenagers, who are still little familiar with food etiquette and the effects of certain foods, there is a habit of washing down sweet ice cream with carbonated drinks. This can be either “harmless” mineral water, lemonade or cola. This combination can cause gas formation, heaviness and bloating that does not go away during the day. Therefore, children should clearly understand that it is safer to drink ice cream with ordinary clean water without gas, and also that they cannot add scoops of ice cream to a glass of soda.You can't eat melon with other foods.
The reason for bloating, heaviness or diarrhea after eating melon with other foods (with anything) is the presence of a large number of enzymes in this wonderful vegetable. It is the huge number of enzymes that does not allow melon to get along with other products, even with ordinary water. Moreover, the reaction can be very different. Therefore, nutritionists recommend consuming melon as an independent product for snacking, and not in salads or desserts. It is also not recommended to drink melon with any drinks.Broth "on the bone" is harmful
Don't adopt our grandmothers' habit of making bone broth. A huge amount of toxic elements and heavy metals accumulate in the bones. During cooking, all toxins and waste are transferred into water, which is then called “broth”. And they still find it useful. And even healthy vegetables, which we then add to the broth to make soup from, do not save the situation.Sweetened porridge is harmful
Porridge with sugar or jam is more of a useless combination than a harmful one. Although porridge with sugar will not cause problems to our stomach or intestines, it will have zero benefit. It's all about the starch content in the cereal itself (any grain, even buckwheat) - 70-80%, which, when entering the body, turns into glucose. And added sugar or jam increases blood sugar levels. Everyone knows that consuming too much sugar can cause problems with excess weight or the risk of developing diabetes. It is much healthier to replace sugar with fresh fruit.Cottage cheese with jam or sugar should not be eaten
To process protein foods (milk protein in cottage cheese) an acidic environment is required in the stomach. And the sugar that gets in with the proteins inhibits its release. But sugar, on the contrary, needs to get into the intestines, since it is not digested in the stomach. As a result, it turns out that both products inhibit the digestion of each other, which is manifested by bloating or heaviness in the stomach.Bread with honey or jam is harmful
The reasons for the incompatibility of these two products are the same as in the previous version - difficulty in digesting their “neighbor”. Consumption of these products together leads to fermentation and gas formation in the digestive tract. Therefore, it is better to make a sandwich from fish or boiled meat.Green tea with milk is useless
This is rather a useless combination than a harmful one. Green tea is loved and drunk for its antioxidant properties (catechins it contains). And milk casein sharply reduces the content of catechins, and besides, when it reacts with beneficial flavonoids in tea, it forms useless compounds. Therefore, young mothers who follow old advice and drink green tea with milk to increase lactation should think about it.We can harm ourselves not only by eating incompatible foods, but also by improperly processing healthy foods. For example, everyone should know that honey cannot be heated - when heated to 60-80 degrees, one of the dangerous poisons and mutagens is formed - oxymethylfurfural, known for its carcinogenic properties. And when heated to 45 degrees, the enzymes and vitamins that make honey worth eating are destroyed. Therefore, if you really want tea with honey, then you should put the latter there after the tea has cooled down sufficiently.
Compatibility of products with each other
It would seem that the combination of tomato and cucumber is a traditional Russian salad.
However, there's a catch. Have you noticed that this salad spoils very quickly?
Tomato is a sour vegetable and cucumber is a non-starchy vegetable. They are digested by various enzymes. As a result, one is digested, the second rots, which can cause gases to form in the stomach.
It is better not to give cucumbers and tomatoes together to children. In general, it is best to remove the skin from tomatoes (it is not digested at all). You can pour boiling water over the tomato and the skin will easily come off.
Ayurveda has a large section called “Compatibility of Products with Each Other.” It is very important to know the compatibility of products with each other, since in the process of joint digestion of incompatible products, poisons and toxins can arise.
Pay attention to your eating habits and try to get rid of bad ones. For example, often after a meal in a restaurant we are served fruit for dessert or a fruit salad. So, if you eat an apple immediately after lunch, the process of fermentation and gas formation will occur. So, an apple eaten immediately after a meal will be digested in 30 minutes and will begin to rot while the rest of the food is still being digested.
It is believed that fruits can only be mixed with fruits. And sweet fruits can only be mixed with sweet ones, sour ones only with sour ones. Melon and watermelon don't go well with anything. That is, finishing a meal with watermelon is categorically not recommended.
You cannot mix fruits and vegetables. The only exceptions are 5 fruits: pineapple, dates, pomegranate, raisins and lemon. Only these fruits can be mixed with vegetables.
Cereals are not recommended to be mixed with other grains. Mixes of cereals and breakfast cereals that are sold in stores like “Seven Grains”, “5 Grains”, and other mixtures are not healthy! They only make you weaker. The fact is that each type of grain takes its own time to digest. And the mixture takes even longer to digest. The same can be said about bad eating habits: it is not recommended, for example, to eat porridge with bread, since you are consuming two grains, say rice and wheat. I can say the same thing about the mixture of black and white rice that is sold in stores. Do not consume this mixture as they are two different types of grains.
Legumes can also be mixed with each other. For example, you can combine beans and lentils.
You can also mix grains with legumes. Separately, grains and legumes are digestible by 40%, and when cooked together, they are digestible by 80% each.
Milk doesn't go well with anything. Remember your childhood: a glass of fresh milk, a crust of bread... Tasty, but, unfortunately, not healthy. The fact is that milk can be consumed either in the morning or in the evening, and grains in the afternoon. So, just milk and a crust of bread do not go together in terms of the time of their consumption.
Recently, a lot of different studies have been carried out, which say that milk is not digested, is not absorbed, causes discomfort in the stomach and is not healthy at all. So, milk is a specific product, and if it is consumed incorrectly, then, of course, there will be discomfort. Try milk with pickles... Moreover, the milk that is subjected to this kind of “research” in quotes is, as a rule, milk from tetra bags, pasteurized, sterilized or reconstituted from milk powder. It’s difficult to even call such a product milk.
Let's reveal one secret: milk is a beneficial sattvic product and for people who are in a state of tamas, milk causes discomfort. The body of these people, as a rule, is polluted, clogged with “garbage” from drinking alcohol, meat, tobacco, and is destroyed by an unhealthy lifestyle. Such an organism is not able to accept milk. So, the secret is precisely that if you want to help a person break out of the state of deep tamas, reveal his potential, return love to his life, help get rid of bad addictions, then feed him milk. Just do it right. Start with a teaspoon at night, gradually increasing the amount you consume. Mix milk with spices, so it is better absorbed and seems tastier. Use natural village milk or the most natural milk possible. To learn how to determine whether milk is good or not, look at the recipe for making paneer cheese and you will understand what we are talking about.
Let's summarize: milk in its pure form is a separate product that can only be consumed in the evening (and morning). Drinking milk is a separate meal. Various dishes that use milk, such as soups or porridges, are separate products in which the milk is processed and changes its properties. Such dishes using milk, of course, can be consumed.
Honey and ghee should not be mixed in one to one ratio in one dish. Even though honey and ghee are among the most valuable products. These are not just products, but medicinal products. And the dish should give priority to one of these products. By the way, delivering drugs to the body using alcohol is considered the most aggressive method of drug delivery. Therefore, in Ayurveda, medicines are mainly made with honey or ghee, without the use of alcohol.
Below we provide a small list of products that are not compatible with each other. Study it and apply this knowledge in planning your daily diet.
Incompatible:
Milk and bananas, yogurt, eggs, melon, fish, meat, sour fruits, rice and legume pilafs, yeast bread;
Melon and grains, starch, fried foods, dairy products;
Yogurt and milk, melon, sour fruits, hot drinks (including tea and coffee), starch, cheese, bananas;
Starches and eggs, bananas, milk, dates;
Honey and an equal amount of ghee (honey is toxic when heated above 40 degrees);
Nightshades (potatoes, tomatoes, etc.) and yogurt, milk, melon, cucumbers;
Corn and dates, raisins, bananas;
Lemon and yogurt, milk, cucumbers, tomatoes;
Eggs and milk, meat, yogurt, melon, cheese, fish, bananas;
Radishes and milk, bananas, raisins;
Fruits with any other food. Fruits cannot be mixed with other products (including dairy products) - in this case they cause fermentation and gas formation. Exceptions: pomegranate, pineapple, lemon (lime), dates, raisins (can be mixed with other products, such as vegetables).
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