Dietary Taboo Food Compatibility List

At present, most of the "food conflict reactions" circulated on the Internet and among the people have no rigorous scientific basis. There is no "food conflict" relationship in which two normal, fresh, and compliant foods will inevitably lead to poisoning and harm to the body when eaten together. Most of the so-called "food conflict reactions" are essentially caused by individual physical differences, unclean food, improper eating methods, or excessive consumption, and do not need to be used as rigid guidelines for daily diet.

Speaking of which, there was a chart with cartoon patterns posted on the inside of my refrigerator door. My grandma used to glance at it twice before cooking. She would never let me eat persimmons the same day after buying crabs. She didn’t dare to put tofu in the spinach because she said it would cause stones. It wasn’t until I took her to attend a nutrition science class in the community two years ago that she tore off the chart. The Chinese Nutrition Society, Lanzhou University, and Harbin Medical University have previously conducted related human food trials. They selected a dozen pairs of the most vicious "combined combinations" reported online, and found hundreds of volunteers of different ages and physical constitutions to eat continuously for 3 to 7 days. All of them had completely normal blood counts, liver and kidney functions, and digestive tract reactions, and few even had diarrhea.

Take the most bizarre theory of "shrimp + vitamin C = arsenic poisoning" as an example. Theoretically, the pentavalent arsenic in the shrimp can indeed react with vitamin C to form trivalent arsenic, which is arsenic. However, to reach the toxic dose, you have to eat more than 150 kilograms of shrimp with excessive heavy metals at one time, and then take dozens of high-dose medicinal vitamin C tablets at the same time. If you really eat so much, you will die before being poisoned. There is also a saying that "eating spinach and tofu together will cause stones". The oxalic acid in spinach will indeed combine with calcium, but as long as you blanch the spinach for 1 minute in advance, more than 80% of the oxalic acid can be removed. On the contrary, it can reduce the intake of oxalic acid, which is healthier than eating spinach alone.

Speaking of this, some friends who are familiar with traditional Chinese medicine must ask, is the "food opposite" passed down by our ancestors false? This is really not the same thing. The combination of sex and flavor in traditional Chinese medicine is based on individual constitution. For example, if a person with a weak spleen and stomach eats two or three cold crabs and two ice-cold persimmons at one time, he will definitely have diarrhea. However, the superposition of two cold foods exceeds the tolerance of the spleen and stomach. If a young man with a strong spleen and stomach eats like this, nothing will happen. This is completely different from the online saying that "no matter what the constitution is, you will be poisoned if you eat it". I had a similar experience myself. I was so greedy last summer that I just grabbed half a piece of iced watermelon from the refrigerator and finished eating it. Then I turned around and grabbed two braised duck necks that I had just taken out to chew on. That night, I couldn't stand up straight. My mother patted her thigh and said, " I told you that watermelon and duck meat are incompatible, but you didn’t listen.” As a result, I heated the duck neck thoroughly and ate it with watermelon at room temperature several times, but nothing happened. It was not a conflict. It was obviously irritating the stomach after eating too much ice.

Of course, this does not mean that there are no taboos that need to be paid attention to in the diet, but these taboos have nothing to do with "competition". For example, you must not drink any alcoholic beverages in the week before and after taking cephalosporins and metronidazole drugs. This is a disulfiram reaction, which can cause sudden death in serious cases. People with lactose intolerance should not drink cold milk on an empty stomach. No matter what they drink with it, they will easily get flatulence and diarrhea. Gout patients should try not to eat a lot of seafood and drink beer at the same time. It is not that these two are conflicting, but that they are both high-purine foods, and together they can easily induce gout attacks. For example, sprouted potatoes, uncooked green beans, and fresh day lilies are poisonous in themselves. No matter what they are eaten with, they are prone to trouble. Don’t blame other foods.

As for why these mutual restraint tables can be passed down for decades? To put it bluntly, sanitary conditions were poor in the past. Many people had stomach problems after eating unclean food or undercooked food. It happened that they ate two kinds of food that were not usually eaten together that day, so the blame was passed on to the "Xiangke". It became an old experience to spread rumors. There are still many marketing accounts that specialize in compiling these sensational contents to gain traffic, deliberately magnifying individual cases into general rules, and deceiving many middle-aged and elderly people.

If you really want to talk about what you should pay attention to in your daily diet, it is actually much simpler than eating in front of the relative table: buy fresh ingredients and cook them before eating them. According to your own constitution, if you have a weak spleen and stomach, eat less raw and cold foods, and if you have high uric acid, eat less high-purine foods. You don’t have to embarrass yourself in front of the colorful table. You can’t even throw away delicacies that have been eaten for hundreds of years, such as tofu with green onions and crab with rice wine, just for the sake of an invisible statement, right?