Incompatible food combinations

In the last post I wrote about choosing your diet accordingly to your Ayurvedic constitution and about some basic dietary principles. In this post I will write about incompatible food combinations according to Ayurveda. Here are some basic rules in Food combining.

You should avoid the following food combinations:
- don't combine milk and yogurth with sour and citrus fruits,
- avoid eating fruits with potatoes or other starchy foods, because fructose and starch are digested in different times (fructose quickly while starch is digested more slowly) resulting in improper digestion of sugar.
- avoid cooking honey! Honey digests slowly when cooked. Uncooked honey is nectar while cooked honey is poison.
- don't eat meat protein and milk protein together. Meat has heating energy while milk is cooling so they counteract one another, disturbing the gastric fire (agni).
- melons and grains are not good together, because of different digestion times. Melons should be eaten alone.
- milk and melons should not be mixed together. Both are cooling, but milk is laxative and melon is diuretic, and milk requires more time to digest. Moreover mik curdles in the stomach. That's why you should not combine milk with sour fruits, yogurth, cheese, sour cream and fish.

Milk is incompatible with: bananas, sour fruits, melons, fish, meat and bread with yeast.
Yogurth is incompatible with: milk, meat, fish, cheese, starches, melons, mangos and sour fruits.
Starches are incompatible with: eggs, milk, bananas and dates.
Eggs are incompatible with: milk, yogurth, fish, meat, melons, bananas and cheese.
Corn is incompatible with: dates, raisins and bananas.
Potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, chillies are incompatible with: milk, yogurth, cucumber and melons.
Lemon is incompatible with: yogurth, milk, cucumbers and tomatoes.
Honey is incompatible with: ghee (clarified butter) and with heating or cooking.
Beans are incompatible with: milk, fruits, cheese, yogurth and meat.
Fruits should be eaten alone.

Some of this rules may seem hard to follow, especially because many dishes include one of this forbidden combinations. But once you start to eat accordingly to these rules your digestion will improve and you will start to feel better right away!