A whopping eighty percent of your body's total energy expenditure is used for digestion. Eating certain food groups together makes your digestive system work harder, requiring your body to use even more energy for digestion. Unwanted symptoms such as bloating, gas, sugar cravings, heartburn, and reflux are often due to the consumption of incorrect food combinations. The Plant-Based Whole Food Combining Chart is a straightforward guide for properly combining foods for optimal digestion and absorption. As mentioned above, certain food combinations are synergistic and offer powerful healing benefits; however, there are other food combinations you should avoid.
The “Plant-Based Whole Food Combining Chart” will show you:
- How to avoid fermentation and putrefaction that slows down food digestion and produces toxic by-products.
- Which food to eat alone.
- Which food combinations to avoid.
- The one food group that you should avoid to prevent unwanted excess mucus and digestive issues while detoxing.
- Which food groups are not suitable for detoxification.
- The best food groups to consume for detoxification.
The combination of eating two or more different plant foods together often has enhanced synergistic health effects. Below are some examples:
Fruit salad: Based on a study done by Cornell University, blends of different fruit generated increased synergistic antioxidant activity. The authors of this study recommended, “that to improve their nutrition and health, consumers should be getting antioxidants from a diverse diet.”
Tomatoes and avocados in guacamole: The healthy fats in avocados make the lycopene more bioavailable. Thus reducing cancer risk and cardiovascular disease.
Turmeric and black pepper: Curcumin in turmeric and piperine in black pepper has been found to improve health due to their anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and disease-fighting qualities. Sprinkling black pepper on your curry increases the bioavailability of curcumin by 2,000 percent.
Nuts and seeds with salad: You increase the nutrition absorption in a salad when you add a whole food source of fat. For example, the fat in nuts and seeds assists with the absorption of the carotenoid phytonutrients found in all the greens.
Kale and lemon: Kale is a non-heme form of iron and is, therefore, less bioavailable. Vitamin C increases iron absorption. So the high amounts of vitamin C found in lemon juice increases the iron absorption from the kale.
Tomatoes and broccoli: A study by the University of Illinois, USA, discovered that combining these two foods is more effective at slowing the growth of prostate tumors when compared to consuming them separately.
Dark chocolate and apples: Dark chocolate is rich in catechins, and apples are an abundant flavonoid source. Consuming them together helps promote healthier skin and improve cardiovascular health.
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