Food Combination and great digestion
This guide will provide some help on how eating certain foods will affect your digestion. If you are combining correctly this will keep the digestive system in harmony, especially people with digestive problems or diseases.
Want to lose weight? Always feel like you are bloated and want to nap after meals? Having reflux problems with food? Feeling constipated or can't keep your food down? Just want to feel healthy and know you are giving your body the right foods to get the digestive tract working well?
Combining the right foods will help you achieve all of your goals and you will feel great.
Some foods we eat are not compatible with each other when it comes to digestive chemistry. If you are combining foods correctly, this also helps with nutritional uptake so your nutrition will be enhanced.
Our bodies try their best to keep the alkalinity at the same level as best as it can. When the body is digesting foods, digestive juices are secreted to help with the process. If the food is a Starch meal which is Alkaline based and you combine this with a Protein Meal which is Acid based, the body gets confused and this ends up being PH neutral and the body had trouble processing and digesting this food correctly.
Certain foods require longer time to digest, so if you eat something that would normally digest quickly, it stays in the stomach longer for the other food to be ready. It can then decompose and ferment and the nutrient value can become lost.
Depending on your body and any sensitive’s, allergies, intolerances and diseases, your body may be more acidic or alkalising. Therefore you may need to eat certain foods from the food chart and not others. I myself have a high acidity level naturally and get reflux if I don't eat well. So I avoid acid fruits and foods to keep on track naturally without having to medicate.
Starches need about 2-3 hours to digest
Proteins need approximately 4 hours to digest
Eating foods with proteins and starches could take 5-6 hours to digest.
Food combining rules
Never combine Starches and Proteins in the same meal period
Don’t eat fruits with other food unless they are neutral foods like leafy greens for salads or smoothies.
Melons & Sweet Fruits– never eat them with other food! High sugar content will ferment and produce gas/flatulence.
Don’t combine two concentrated proteins or two starches in the same meal
Don’t eat proteins with fats
Don’t combine sugars and starches together
Below is a food combination chart that will help guide you on what foods you can eat together.
Happy combining!
In our bodies, carbohydrate and protein digested differently.
Protein may need to stay in the stomach for around 3 hours for the complex proteins to break down into amino acids. Carbohydrates start to digest from the moment we start to chew them in our mouth.
When we say that protein and carbohydrate don't go together, think about the fact that some foods have both protien and carbs. We are really saying, don't combine Protiens and starches like Meat which has protein and potatoes which are 90% carbs/starches and 8% protein.
Look at the higher number the food contains and that is what category it will fall within.
The idea here is to keep the acid level down in our bodies, higher acidity means more chance of illness. The range identified of acidity we are looking for is between 7.4 to 7.5; this is slightly alkaline and we are considered to be in good health.
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