Be careful of what you eat

After watching "Deadly Delicious", I started paying attention to what types of food cannot be eaten together. If you eat things together that you should not have, you will not only be unable to assimilate all the nutrients but also at risk for some negative side-effects. Since foods have different chemical structures, some of them, if eaten together, may result in an unfavorable chemical reaction in your body. In some cases, it can even lead to food poisoning.

For instance, soya milk and eggs should not be eaten together. Soya milk can reduce the activity of protease, which is used to help the human body assimilate protein. Eggs are, of course, very rich in protein.

Persimmons does not go well with sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes produce hydrochloric acid in your stomach. Hydrochloric acid can help turn persimmon into precipitant in your body. And precipitants can become insoluble stones, which you can neither digest nor discharge.

Believe it or not, milk and chocolate do not match either. While milk is rich in protein and calcium, chocolate contains oxalic acid. Eaten together, calcium from milk and oxalic acid of chocolate can combine and form insoluble calcium oxalate, which is not only indigestible but also can cause diarrhea. As such, I am not sure how chocolate milk works.

Some fruits contain tannin which when combined with protein can produce insoluble and indigestible materials. It is advisable that you eat these fruits four hours after you have eaten seafood

Milk products do not go with some vegetables like broccoli, soya beans and spinach. Chemicals in these vegetables negatively affect assimilation of calcium from the milk products.

This is just a short list that I have found and I am sure there are many more combinations which we have to be refrain from. I will make it a point to be more conscious about what I eat.