15 Most Dangerous Food Combinations You Need To Avoid

Some food combinations work well together, some do not. Knowing what kinds of foods should not go with others will help you protect your health and your family’s as well. Today, Beauty Talk will provide the most dangerous food combinations that can affect adversely to your body. Keep in mind and avoid them when you are planning meals.

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Top 15 Dangerous Food Combinations That You Need To Avoid

In the old days, Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine had word of mouth about food combinations could harm human health, which we still follow nowadays. However, not all of us clearly understand the reasons why we must not combine these types of food. Therefore, now, we will talk about them in detail.

1. Eggs And Soy Milk

Eggs are abundant protein sources, but when you have eggs and soy milk at one time, your body will not be able to get that valuable protein. This is because soy milk contains trypsin and protease inhibitors – substances that hinder the protein absorption^[1]. The digestive process thereby also will not be conductive, leading to gas and bloating.

2. Honey And Soy Milk

Formic acid in honey can react with protein in soy milk, forming precipitation, causing indigestion and clumps in your stomach. In severe cases, the combination causes shortness of breath and coma. For the same reason, you also should not mix honey with tofu.

3. Shellfish And Citrus Fruits

Shellfish has high arsenic levels, while citrus fruits are full of vitamin C. The interaction between these two chemicals will result in toxins in your body, making this combination extremely poisonous. Toxins weaken your immune system, and if the amounts of toxin are high enough, it can even threaten your life.

4. Seafood And Fruits

Keep persimmons, pomegranates, grapes, apples, cranberries, and mangos away from you when you are having a seafood party because you will not want to eat them together. These fruits contain tannins – polyphenols that are powerful antioxidants if eaten separately but can become toxic if combined with protein in seafood. With indigestible stuff that the combination produces inside your body, you will end up with vomiting and diarrhea. These symptoms also appear when you consume seafood and green tea at the same time.

5. Meat And Potatoes

Not only meat and potatoes but all combos of protein and starch are burdens of the digestive system. Protein requires a different digestive method from starch, making it more difficult to digest. This, along with the fiber lack in the combination, will lead to gas, bloating, flatulence, heartburn, and other stomach problems.

6. Eggs And Bacon

Eggs and bacon is a representative for the protein-protein meal. Although this is a favorite breakfast option for people all over the world, we cannot underestimate its effects on the body. Too much protein is tough for digestion^[2]. If you go with this diet for a long time, it will debilitate your digestive system. It is better to consume carbs with a protein, in which the interval between carbs and protein intakes should not exceed 10 minutes.

7. Water Or Juice With Meals

Do not drink while eating is how you keep your stomach healthy. The fluid will dilute or drain the gastric juice, which is responsible for food digestion, thus reducing the activity of the digestive system. Moreover, the habit of drinking during meals can bring about poor absorption, flatulence, and indigestion. You should only have beverages for half an hour before meals and one hour after to make sure the acid digests food properly and prevent the formation of gas inside the stomach.

8. Pizza And Soda

Pizza and coke seem to be an ideal combo for an empty stomach, but in fact, that is a crime. While carbs, protein, and starch in pizza cause the digestive tract to work hard to digest, the sugar content in carbonated drinks decelerates the process. The digestive system cannot meet both requirements at the same time so that you will face bloating, indigestion, and other digestive disorders.

9. Tomatoes And Cheese In Pasta

No pasta dish can be perfect without some tomatoes and cheese. But this is not a perfect combination for your stomach. Pasta is a starch, which itself is hard to digest. When you mix it with tomatoes, acids in the fruit will make the digestion even harder, leading to abdominal distention. Added cheese also contributes to the heaviness of the digestive system since its dairy will curdle in the acidic environment.

10. Burger And Fries

All kinds of fast food are killers, burger and fries are no exception. Both of these foods are loaded with trans-fats, which give rise to diabetes type 2, stroke, and heart disease^[3]. This is also a combination of protein and starch, which we have mentioned its negative effects on the digestive system before.

11. Oatmeal And Orange Juice

Some people usually have breakfast with an oatmeal bowl and a glass of orange juice without being aware of the side effects. On the one hand, oatmeal asks for specific digestive enzymes, which will become useless when encountering acids in orange juice. On the other hand, the acidity also precipitates casein protein in milk. As a consequence, you will experience stomach ache, dyspepsia, and indigestion.

12. Banana And Milk

Although both banana and milk are nutritious when eaten separately, combining them is not a lucid idea. Experts have warned that if you consume this combo regularly for a long period, you will soon develop symptoms such as skin rashes, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, and even sinus congestion. The right way to enjoy these two foods is to drink milk at least 20 minutes after having bananas.

13. Milk And Chocolate

If your stomach and digestive tract are weak, you will probably have diarrhea after taking milk with chocolate. The reason is that the high calcium level of milk will react with oxalate acid in chocolate, producing insoluble oxalate calcium.

14. Lemons And Tomatoes

All acidic foods are difficult to digest. When consuming two types of acid in one meal, your stomach will have a protest. Besides, the acidity of lemons and tomatoes will raise the levels of your stomach acids, leading to gastric pH imbalances. The consequences of this process are heartburn, gastroesophageal reflux, and digestive disorders.

15. Cucumbers And Tomatoes

Cucumbers and tomatoes have different digestion time, which means mixing them will cause digestive complications such as gas, bloating, nausea, and abdominal pain. Furthermore, tomatoes are excellent sources of vitamin C^[4], while cucumbers possess enzymes that interfere with the absorption of vitamin C. Thence, combining cucumbers and tomatoes just do not supplement necessary nutrients for your body, by contrast, it brings you lots of health issues.

Humans need to eat to maintain their life, so this is important to choose the right foods and create proper combinations. We hope you have gained some knowledge by reading our article and will always have healthy meals.