Ayurveda Shares Wrong Food Combinations! Are you Consuming those?| Ayush Next (2024)

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What is the wrong combination of food in Ayurveda? ›

Grains should not be consumed with Tapioca and Fruits. One should not consume fruits and milk with vegetables. Beans are the wrong combination with eggs, milk, fish, fruits, yogurt, and meat. Yogurt is to be avoided with cheese, hot drinks, sour fruits, milk, mangoes, nightshades, beans, eggs, fish.

The nightshade family (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant) should not be consumed with meat, fish, cucumbers or dairy products. Avoid combining meat with milk, radish, sprouts, honey and sesame. Starchy foods should not be combined with fruit, milk and eggs. Moreover, starch and fructose should not be combined.

Red meat, caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco all increase inflammation. Avoid them and instead follow a pitta-pacifying diet of cooling, slightly dry, low-salt foods. Eat plenty of whole grains (especially barley and basmati rice), vegetables (especially bitter, leafy greens), and protein.

It is recommended to cook eggs with cooling spices like coriander, fennel, or mint to help balance the Pitta. For Kapha individuals, eggs may not be the best choice, as they can be heavy and contribute to Kapha imbalances.

It's often suggested that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but in Ayurvedic practice, lunch is actually the most important. Midday is when our digestive fire (called “agni” in Sanskrit) is at its strongest, so it's best to eat the biggest, heartiest, most nourishing meal for lunch.

Include fruits like berries (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, and amla), oranges, and bananas in the diet. They reduce pitta and are rich in antioxidants. Berries also reduce cortisol production—a stress hormone. Coconut water calms and nourishes the body, is rich in potassium, and fights muscular stress.

What not to mix with bananas? ›

This is why, health experts recommend avoiding acidic and sub-acidic fruits like lemon, pomegranate, strawberries, etc with banana, which is sweet in nature. In fact, some studies have found that when eaten together, bananas and acidic fruits create issues like nausea, headache et al.

Avoid mixing acidic fruits with sweet fruits

Acidic and sub-acidic fruits such as grapefruits, strawberries, apples, pomegranates, and peaches, should never be combined with sweet fruits such as bananas and raisins. This is because it often leads to digestive problems, nausea, acidosis, and headaches.

Similarly, milk and melons should not be eaten together. Both are cooling, but milk is laxative and melon diuretic. Milk requires more time for digestion. Moreover the stomach acid required to digest the melon causes the milk to curdle, so Ayurveda advises against taking milk with sour foods.

Foods to avoid at night according to Ayurveda – Foods that are greasy, unhealthy, sweet, difficult to digest, non-vegetarian, cold or frozen, ice cream, big quantities, curd, and other items should be avoided or eaten in moderation at night. You should refrain from eating these things after midnight.

Banana is one of the only fruits with “rules” – One should not eat it on full stomach nor empty stomach. Banana is not healthy to eat first thing in the morning. Like other fruit, having Banana as an afternoon snack is an appropriate time to eat banana.

for normal healthy people, diet sequence should be based on taste - first take sweet taste, then sour, then salty, and pungent, bitter and astringent so on. Last taste will be astringent. For example, start the meal with sweet - laddu and in the end usually people take bettel nut or kattha (acacia) which is astringent.