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It is vital to know whether the given combination of food items is appropriate or not. Ayurvedic literature discusses in detail about various food combinations and warns that many food items if eaten together combine to act like poison in the body. For instance, honey and desi ghee when mixed in equal quantities and eaten, acts like poison. For digestion of constituent substances of a diet different digestive juices are required. Shwetsaar substances are digested by alkaline juices whereas proteins are digested by acidic juices. Shwetsaar and protein rich foods, when eaten together, will trigger the release of both alkaline and acidic juices leading to putrefaction of protein and fermentation of shwetsaar. This disturbs the process of digestion. Similarly foods like vegetables, fruits, pickles, curd, kheer, sweets and papad etc when eaten together disturb the digestive process. Eating one substance at a time is ideal. Eating a mix of substances is wrong in the first place. Mixture of minimum foods is preferable and makes the food easily digestible. One should take fruits at one time while salad(vegetables) and cereals at other time. This is called Monodiet. *Wrong Combination:* Milk and curd with banana Milk or curd with radish Milk and curd Honey with hot water or any other hot substance Honey and radish Khichdi and Kheer Milk with musk melon(kharbooza)/watermelon/cucumber/sanke gourd(kakadi) Bengal gram (Urad) and radish Curd and blackberry(jamun) Curd and musk melon(kharbooza) Curd and paneer Fruits with vegetables Radish or curd at night Curd after heating Ghee kept in a copper pot for more than 10 or more days Pulses with sweet potato/potato/kachalu Musk melon(kharbooza)/watermelon with any other food item Pulses and rice or pulses and chapati Milk or curd with chapati Chapati and tamarind *NB: Chapati and rice should be eaten together alongwith good amount of vegetables.* *Ideal Combination:* Mango and cow's milk Milk and dates Rice and coconut Guava with fennel seed(saunf) Watermelon with radish leaves Asparagus(bathua) and curd raita Curd and pulses Mix vegetable of carrot and methi Banana and cardamom(small) Curd and amla powder Swetsaar with vegetables Dry fruits with citrus fruits Pulses and vegetables Vegetables and rice khichdi Fruits and small quantity dry fruits with vegetables Chaopati with green leafy vegetables Sprouts with fresh coconut * * * * -- K.Sivakumar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thatha_patty?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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