Separate food: product compatibility

A little over 100 years ago, the theory of separate nutrition was born. According to her postulates, our body more easily absorbs individual foods than mixed foods. Later physiologists denied this theory. And meanwhile there really are products that you should not combine. "Separate food: compatibility of products" - the topic of our article.

Milk and plant products

Fresh and pickled cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, citrus, melon, apples - the list can be continued indefinitely, and for everyone it will be your own, - badly combined with milk. Whole milk is a product that more "loves" neutral food: potatoes, white bread, pasta, cereals. A half of the adult population, which has lost over the years the ability to produce an enzyme that breaks down the milk sugar, the drink itself in itself causes digestive upset. In combination with vegetable food, milk often increases the motor function of the intestine, which is manifested by loosening of the stool, rumbling in the stomach and even pain syndrome.

Milk and tea or coffee

Ambiguous combination. Tannins and caffeine, contained in drinks, disrupt the absorption of calcium, even stimulate its removal from the bones, increasing the risk of osteoporosis. There is an opinion that proteins complicate the assimilation of antioxidants contained in tea and coffee. However, milk softens the irritating effect of drinks on the gastric mucosa. Therefore, people with gastrointestinal diseases should drink tea and coffee with milk.

Milk and meat, offal, fish, poultry

The combination of animal products with milk "revolution" in the stomach will not cause. In the Finnish cuisine are common dishes, the main ingredients of which are fish and milk. But it is worth remembering that milk sugar (lactose) in combination with products containing cholesterol, increases its level in the blood. Therefore, people with heart and vessel diseases are not recommended for the above combinations.

Fat and sweet

Sponge cake with cream, just a slice of white bread with butter and jam ... Do not forget that both fats and sweets serve as active stimulants of the intestine and the abuse of such food can cause digestive disorders. Therefore, observe the measure - this not only helps to avoid diarrhea, but also allows you to keep a slender figure!

Fat and Salted

Even the great Avicenna in his "Canon of Medical Science" warned against such a combination. It can cause weakening of the stool, and in addition, creates an additional burden on the vessels. People who suffer from hypertension or atherosclerosis should not fatten fatty foods or supplement a sandwich with a herring or a salted fish with a layer of butter.

Lamb and cold drinks

Lamb fat is the most refractory of animal fats. If shish kebab is washed down with heavily chilled drinks, it is digested with even greater difficulty. That's why the inhabitants of Central Asia serve hot tea with plov and other lamb dishes. Otherwise, pain in the stomach can not be avoided!

Wine and Cheese

This combination is also much debated. There is an opinion that proteins of cheese, especially Adyghe and the like, worsen the absorption of polyphenols of red wine. In addition, both products increase the production of serotonin, which can cause allergies or migraines. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of France, Italy, Greece - have been seizing wine with cheese for more than one hundred years. It is believed that the inhabitants of these countries have the most robust health ...

Carbonated drinks and everything else

There is an opinion that soda is not harmful, if you do not drink it in liters. Nevertheless, lemonade, champagne and mineral water with gas contain carbon dioxide. Getting into the intestines, the vesicles clog the microscopic villi, through which the absorption of nutrients occurs. In addition, carbon dioxide has an irritating effect. So you can quench your thirst with a "pop", but do not drink it with food.

Olive oil and frying pan

What is better to cook? The nutritionist will answer unequivocally: "Nothing!" This is the most unhealthy way of cooking. But completely give up fried foods, very few people can! Admirers of a healthy food assert, that if and to fry, only not on olive oil. Of course, unrefined is suitable only for salads. But olive refined more than other oils suitable for frying. When heated, trans-isomers of polyunsaturated fatty acids, which are harmful to the body, are not formed in it.