Ayurvedic Food Combinations:
According to Ayurveda, every food has its own taste, a heating or cooling energy, and post-digestive effect. When food with different energies is combined together, agni (digestive fire) can become weak, resulting in production of toxins. Combining foods improperly can produce indigestion, fermentation, putrefaction and gas formation. This condition, if prolonged, can lead to toxemia and disease complex.
The time you are having meal is as important as the food itself. Grains and beans, for example do their best when eaten at lunch and weaken the digestive fire after 6 p.m. See :Time – the most powerful factor.
|Beans||Fruits, cheese, eggs, fish, milk, meat, curd|
|Eggs||Fruits, especially melons;beans, cheese, fish, milk, meat, curd.|
|Fruits||As a rule shouldn’t be taken along milk, curd|
|Honey||With equal amount of Ghee by weight|
|Hot drinks||Mangoes, cheese, fish, meat, starch, curd|
|Lemon||Cucumber, milk, tomato, curd|
|Melon||Anything especially dairy products, eggs, fried food, grains, starch. Melons more than other fruits should be eaten alone or left alone.|
|Milk||Bananas, cherries, melons, sour fruits, bread containing yeast, fish, meat, curd|
|Nightshades ( white potatoes, tomatoes, egg plant, peppers)||Melon, cucumber, dairy products|
|Radishes||Bananas, raisins, milk|
|Tapioca||Fruit, especially banana and mango; beans, raisins, jaggery (Indian sugar).
TODAY’S TIP : Never cook honey – heated honey is poison as it clogs the channels. Always look for raw unheated honey, for it contains live enzymes in the amount highest of all foods.