Best Foods to Eat Together

It turns out that different types of foods require different digestive juices in order to be properly broken down in the body and mixing those different foods causes ineffective digestion of all of it.

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Here are five food-combing principles that can help you effectively digest your meals.

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Do Not Combine Protein with Starch. The digestion of starches begins in the mouth with saliva. Proteins are mainly digested in the stomach. When the two food types are eaten together, the starch does not get predigested in the mouth and begins to ferment in the stomach. Another thing is that proteins require an acidic environment for digestion and the starches require an alkaline environment. They effectively cancel each ... more
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Do Not Combine Protein with Starch. The digestion of starches begins in the mouth with saliva. Proteins are mainly digested in the stomach. When the two food types are eaten together, the starch does not get predigested in the mouth and begins to ferment in the stomach. Another thing is that proteins require an acidic environment for digestion and the starches require an alkaline environment. They effectively cancel each other out and nothing gets digested. It just sits in the stomach causing more gas and bloating.

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