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| According to Ayurveda it isn't good to eat milk/yoghurt and high-sugar or acidic fruits together |
Sometime ago i was taken aback when it was pointed to me that the among all the species on this planet Humans are the only one that drinks milk when adult stage. Seemingly this has contributed to some illness that we are having now.
Then today i was taken aback when told that you should not drink milk with fruits and certain other food groups and when i checked online it seems to be some truth in this theory!
So i decided to research this theory and.....
According to Ayurveda it isn't good to eat milk/yoghurt and high-sugar or acidic fruits together. In the case of high sugar fruits, the milk hampers the digestion process of the fruit and the sugars may ferment. In the case of acidic fruits, the acid in the fruit curdles the milk, leading to excess acidity.
Not many people know that there are some forbidden things when drinking milk
Taking medicine with milk is harmful to health. The following foods cannot be eaten with milk.
Milk and orange
You shouldn’t eat orange about 1 hour before or after drinking milk because protein in milk can combine with acid in orange. As a result, it will affect digestion and absorption milk in people’s body. Moreover, in this period, it isn’t suitable to eat other fruits containing acid feature.
You shouldn’t eat orange about 1 hour before or after drinking milk.
Milk and fruits
80% of protein in milk is casein. When you drink milk with fruits, the big amount of casein will accumulate, precipitate in your body and it’s difficult for you to digest and absorb. It can even lead to indigestion and diarrhea. Therefore, it isn’t suitable to add other fruit juices and drinks that are acidic in milk.
Hot milk and sugar
Milk contains lysine that will react with fructose in hot condition to create fructose toxin relying on lysine and it will be harmful to people’s body. Therefore, you shouldn’t add sugar to boiled fresh milk. You should add sugar after milk is cooling.
Milk and chocolate
Milk is rich in protein and calcium while chocolate contains oxalic acid. Eating 2 these foods together will lead to forming of unsaturated oxalate calcium, it has big effect to absorption of calcium. Besides, it can even cause come phenomena such as dried hair, diarrhea, slow growing…
You shouldn’t eat chocolate with milk.
Milk and medicine
When some people take medicine, they like to use milk to take medicine instead of filtered water. In reality, milk has remarkable effect to absorption of medicine in people’s body. It’s easy for milk to create a thin membrane on surface of medicine. Therefore, calcium, magnesium and other minerals in milk will have chemical reaction with medicine and it will create unsaturated substance in water, it will affect medicine’s effect. Therefore, you shouldn’t drink milk about 1 hour before or after taking medicine.
You shouldn’t drink milk about 1 hour before or after taking medicine.
To ensure absorption of nutrients in milk and health, you should pay attention to the above forbidden things and you must be careful with drinking milk. You also need to avoid effects that are caused by bad habits.
Ayurveda recommends avoiding fruits and milk together. According to the literature fruits and milk act antagonistically when taken together. More emphasis is on avoiding taking milk with banana. There are few explanations stating this combination may cause allergy or asthma.
Eating fruits with any food group should be avoided. This was said by the director of the Preventative Medical Center of Marin, Elson Haas. According to him combining fruits with any other food delays digestion of fruits leading to fermentation of fruit within the stomach which may lead to indigestion and bloating.
However, a lot depends on your metabolism and your digestive system so you might be able to digest fruit and milk together better than I can, but it's better to stay safe.
THE AYURVEDA THEORY
Incompatible Food Combinations (Virudh Aahar)
Apart from the above, food combinations also play an important role in digestion. According to Dr Vasant Lad, the renowned Ayurvedic physician and professor, ‘when two or more foods having different tastes, energy and post digestive effect are combined, agni becomes overloaded, inhibiting the enzyme system and resulting in the production of toxins. At the same time these foods, if eaten separately, might well stimulate agni, be digested more quickly and even help to burn or remove toxins’.
However, not all dietary concepts can be logically explained in Ayurveda. Apart from the individual quality of the food, it also possesses prabhava, an unexplained effect that can be identified only through sheer experience. Therefore, food combinations do hold importance even if some remain unexplained.
Nutrition science attributes consumption of acid ash producing foods (sugar, fats, colas), acid residuals in the body and improper digestion as the root cause of all disease. Similarly, in Ayurveda, it is said that improper food combinations produces weak acids leading to various disorders. Incompatible food combinations can lead to flatulence, indigestion, and fermentation. Prolonged intake of such combinations can lead to toxemia and disease.
On the other hand, the incompatibility gets neutralized somewhere down the line if-
► the incompatibility is slight,
► the person has a strong digestive power,
► the individual is young,
► the individual is habituated to regular exercise,.
Some basic rules of food combining and food consumption are as follows-
► Curds not to be consumed in hot season, in hot form (kadhi, tadka in raita, curds in vegetables), without sugar, honey, ghee or amla.
► Curds should NOT be consumed in the night. Buttermilk helps in digestion whereas curds to the contrary are heavy to digest. It can be best digested at lunch time when the digestive abilities are the strongest. Curd is acidic in nature. It aggravates pitta and kapha as it produces a lot of heat in the stomach. Curds are heavy, slow to digest and can be constipating too. People with weak digestion should avoid its consumption.
► Milk not to be taken with fish as they have incompatible potency. Milk is of cold nature whereas fish is of hot nature. As a result the combination of milk and fish vitiates the blood and causes obstruction of channels.
► Banana should not be eaten with milk, curds or buttermilk because it can diminish agni and cause production of excess toxins in the body. The combination may also cause cold and cough and even produce allergies.
► Sweet and sour fruits should never be combined as in a fruit chat. Individual fruits should be eaten as such and as a different meal.
► Chicken or fish should not be combined with milk, sesame, or sprouted grains as it may lead to digestive problems.
► Milk and melons not to be consumed together. Both are of cold nature but milk is a laxative and melon a diuretic. Milk takes longer to digest. The stomach acid required to digest melons, curdles the milk.
► Sour fruits should not to eaten or combined with milk. (Shakes, smoothies, milkshakes, fruit cream).
► Avoid cold drinks during or directly after a meal. It diminishes the agni and causes digestive problems.
► Avoid eating raw and cooked foods together. One can have the salad first and then proceed for dinner after a short gap.
On the other hand, the incompatibility gets neutralized somewhere down the line if-
► the incompatibility is slight,
► the person has a strong digestive power,
► the individual is young,
► the individual is habituated to regular exercise,.
Some basic rules of food combining and food consumption are as follows-
► Curds not to be consumed in hot season, in hot form (kadhi, tadka in raita, curds in vegetables), without sugar, honey, ghee or amla.
► Curds should NOT be consumed in the night. Buttermilk helps in digestion whereas curds to the contrary are heavy to digest. It can be best digested at lunch time when the digestive abilities are the strongest. Curd is acidic in nature. It aggravates pitta and kapha as it produces a lot of heat in the stomach. Curds are heavy, slow to digest and can be constipating too. People with weak digestion should avoid its consumption.
► Milk not to be taken with fish as they have incompatible potency. Milk is of cold nature whereas fish is of hot nature. As a result the combination of milk and fish vitiates the blood and causes obstruction of channels.
► Banana should not be eaten with milk, curds or buttermilk because it can diminish agni and cause production of excess toxins in the body. The combination may also cause cold and cough and even produce allergies.
► Sweet and sour fruits should never be combined as in a fruit chat. Individual fruits should be eaten as such and as a different meal.
► Chicken or fish should not be combined with milk, sesame, or sprouted grains as it may lead to digestive problems.
► Milk and melons not to be consumed together. Both are of cold nature but milk is a laxative and melon a diuretic. Milk takes longer to digest. The stomach acid required to digest melons, curdles the milk.
► Sour fruits should not to eaten or combined with milk. (Shakes, smoothies, milkshakes, fruit cream).
► Avoid cold drinks during or directly after a meal. It diminishes the agni and causes digestive problems.
► Avoid eating raw and cooked foods together. One can have the salad first and then proceed for dinner after a short gap.
Source:
https://www.medindia.net/patients/lifestyleandwellness/dietary-dos-and-donts-of-ayurveda-incompatible-food-combinations-virudh-aahar.htmThe Verdict: Well millions of people have been drinking milk and fuits , milk and bananas and many of the combinations above that is said to be bad, so there is no clear evidence if it is really bad, but it may be an eye opener for us to study this issue further. I will update this blog if i find something more concrete..
For now .....Give me my Strawberry Shake!!!
