Accordant Combination
The following food combining chart is designed to facilitate efficient digestion, best nutrition and after-meal comfort. Here we represent diagrammatically the combinations in an easy-to-follow manner, followed by a list of foods in their correct group classification.
Agreeable Food Combination- Accordant Diagrammatical Chart
Food Groups | Proteins | Fats | Starches | Vegetables | Sweet Fruits | Sub-acid Fruits | Acid Fruits |
Proteins | Excellent | Bad | Bad | Excellent | Bad | Fair | Excellent |
Fats | Bad | Excellent | Fair | Excellent | Fair | Fair | Fair |
Starches | Bad | Fair | Excellent | Excellent | Fair | Bad | Bad |
Vegetables | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent | Excellent | Bad | Bad | Bad |
Sweet Fruits | Bad | Fair | Fair | Bad | Excellent | Fair | Bad |
Sub-acid Fruits | Fair | Fair | Bad | Bad | Fair | Excellent | Fair |
Acid Fruits | Excellent | Fair | Bad | Bad | Bad | Fair | Excellent |
Food Groups- Set Classification.
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Proteins | Nuts, | Seeds, | soya beans, | Milk, | Cheese, | Eggs, | yogurt |
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Fats | Oils, | olive, | butter, | margarine | Milk |
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Starches | Whole cereals, | peas, | beans, | lentils | potatoes | tubers |
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Vegetables | Leafy green | sprouted seeds, | cabbage cauliflower, | broccoli, | green peas, | celery, | tomatoes, | onions. |
Sweet Fruits | Bananas, | fits, | custard apples, | all-dried fruits, | Dates, | cherries |
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Sub-acid Fruits | Grapes, | pears, | apples, | peaches, | apricots, | plums, | guavas, | raspberries |
Acid Fruits | Grapes, | lemons, | oranges, | limes, | pineapple, | strawberries |
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In a brief the whole basis for successful food combination is starches, fats, green vegetables and sugars may be eaten together as they require either an alkaline or neutral medium for their digestion. Similarly, proteins, green vegetables and acid fruits may be eaten together as they require an acid or neutral medium for their digestion. But starches and proteins, fats and proteins and starches and acid fruits should not be eaten together as a common rule, if the best results are required from the ingestion of food.
Although every food contains some amount of protein, some amount of carbohydrate those regarded as protein concentrated foods always demand the longest digestive time. You may well wonder, why does the stomach have no trouble in handling foods that naturally contain both protein and starch, such as in whole grains? There is a great difference between the digestions of a food, however complex its composition, and the digestion of a mixture of different foods. To a single article of food that is a starch-protein combination, the body can easily adjust its secretions, both as to strength and timing, based on the digestive requirements of the food. But when two foods are eaten with different, even opposite, digestive requirements, this sharply precise adjustment of secretions to requirements becomes impossible. Also to note that there is no such a food that is 100 percent protein or 100 percent carbohydrate. What counts is whether protein or carbohydrate is the major nutritional element in any particular food. As a general means of control rein food item contains 15 percent of more protein, it can be categorized as 'protein food', while 20 percent or more carbohydrate makes it a 'carbohydrate food'.
Also for the best output while combining different types of food in a single meal occasionally definitely not daily, it doesn't matter much if a little bit of protein is added to a basically carbohydrate meal or vice versa, especially if plenty of raw vegetables or salads are included to provide active enzymes and fibrous bulk. Primary protein foods such as nuts, seeds and soya beans also can combine very well with acid fruits like oranges, pineapples, grapefruit and lemons, and fairly well with sub-acid fruits, like grapes, pears, apples, berries, apricots and peaches. These vegetables and fruits are rich natural sources of vitamin C which aids protein digestion.
There is neither putrefaction nor fermentation and digestion will be much more satisfactory when the foods comprising a meal are of the same type. This generally means eating similar foods at one time in order to accomplish the most complete digestion. A meal consisting of proteins, carbohydrates and fats may remain in the stomach for six to seven hours before the stomach is emptied. If carbohydrates are eaten without proteins, they remain in the stomach for a relatively short period. A fruit meal remains in the stomach for even shorter time. It is advisable to eat these different foods at different meals - a fruit meal, a starch meal and a protein meal. The ideal practice is a fruit meal for breakfast, a starch meal with salad and non- starchy vegetables for lunch, and a protein meal with a salad and non-starchy vegetables for dinner. If one follows the above rules, there is no need to be overzealous about controlling one's diet, no need to count calories, and no need to worry about cholesterol.