vegetable nutrition tip: food combine for best digestion
vegetable nutrition tip: food combine for best digestion
we all love to food combine! we usually don’t pay much attention to it, and simply do it as a way of eating. most of us have food combining habits taken from back in our childhood where we ate what mama made us. another statistic is that most of us have some digestion issues, some more then others. in a vegetables nutrition based diet, it is less of a problem of course, but some tweaking and adjusting should be made.
the way we digest our food is by breaking it down mechanically and then with enzymes in our stomach. the thing is, some enzymes will only go to work in a certain environment, and others will not do their job if another enzyme is present at the scene. Like all subjects, this is also a super complex one, and so i will not go into names and processes, and will try to give only the pointers well needed for us, and it goes mostly for those of us with normal digestion, and no serious issues. (for those of us with more complex issues, there is a more complex separation. i might address that in the future, and for now will only recommend meeting a diet-expert and get a diet made specially!)
the first basic rule for a good digestion in a balanced vegetables nutrition diet is – do not mix proteins with carbs (and specifically starch). while proteins need an acidic enzymes for their digestion, carbs require an alkaline environment, and one will cancel the other, thus stopping the digestive system, leaving the food to ferment in the stomach, creating discomfort, gas, and other symptoms. done over time, this situation may be the root of more serious problems we all want to avoid.
here is a partial list of common protein rich vegetables: dandelion greens, mushrooms, peppers, spinach, broccoli, asparagus, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower.
then of course we have soybeans, nuts, beans and such.
anyway, these do not mix that well with carbs, so let’s try to avoid mixing them with food such as potatoes, carrots, corn, and of course rice and bread and other carbs.
so let’s give it a try, and tweak our healthy vegetables nutrition based diet by separating carbs from proteins, and listen to our body, to see the result. next, i will go deeper into the food combining subject!
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