Chicken, duck eggs, crucian carp, tofu, radish... seemingly ordinary, but if improperly paired and consumed over a long period, they can lead to malnutrition, indigestion, or even food poisoning, and in severe cases, endanger the baby's life.
1. Banana Yogurt (Banana, Yogurt): Yogurt can lower cholesterol. Drinking yogurt on an empty stomach can cause the strong acidity in the stomach to make it difficult for lactic acid bacteria to survive in the gastric juice, reducing the health benefits of yogurt. Eating it with bananas is also not beneficial to your health.
2. Jujube and Ribbonfish Congee (Jujube, Fish, Scallion): Jujube is neutral in nature and can nourish the spleen and stomach, and replenish qi and blood. Eating it with fish and scallions can cause indigestion.
3. Scallion and Mushroom Chicken (Chicken, Sesame): Sesame can nourish the liver and kidneys, nourish blood and produce body fluids, moisten the intestines to promote bowel movements, and blacken hair. However, eating it with chicken can cause poisoning, and severe cases can be fatal. It can be treated by drinking a decoction of licorice in water.
4. Scallion and Century Egg Tofu Salad (Tofu, Scallion): Tofu is rich in protein, calcium, and other nutrients, while scallions contain a large amount of oxalic acid. When tofu and scallions are combined, the calcium in the tofu combines with the oxalic acid in the scallions to form white precipitate calcium oxalate, which destroys the calcium in the tofu. Calcium oxalate is difficult for the human body to absorb. If dishes like scallion拌豆腐 (scallion mixed with tofu) or stir-fried tofu with scallions are consumed for a long time, it can lead to calcium deficiency in the body, making one prone to calcium deficiency, leg cramps, osteomalacia, fractures, etc. Some people use chopped scallions to season tofu when cooking, which is also not advisable. Some vegetables containing oxalic acid, such as spinach, fresh bamboo shoots, and bitter gourd, should also be blanched in boiling water first to remove most of the oxalic acid before cooking to prevent the formation of calcium oxalate.
5. Red Bean and Winter Melon Crucian Carp Soup (Crucian Carp, Winter Melon): Crucian carp is warm in nature and sweet in taste, it harmonizes the stomach, tonifies deficiency, reduces swelling and detoxifies, promotes urination, and increases lactation. However, eating it with winter melon can cause dehydration.
6. Spicy Green Beans (Garlic, Scallion): Garlic and scallions are both foods that strongly irritate the intestines. Eating them together can easily lead to symptoms such as abdominal pain and diarrhea.
7. Five-Spice Tea Eggs (Tea, Eggs): Strong tea contains more tannic acid, which can turn the protein in food into indigestible coagulated substances, affecting the human body's absorption and utilization of protein.
8. Braised Pig's Trotters with Soybeans (Pig's Trotters, Soybeans): The alduronic acid residues in the dietary fiber of soybeans can form chelates with the minerals in pig's trotters, interfering with or reducing the human body's absorption of these elements.
9. Black Glutinous Rice Chicken (Glutinous Rice, Chicken): The main function of glutinous rice is to warm and tonify the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people with a deficient spleen and stomach who often have diarrhea can get a good therapeutic effect from eating it. However, eating it with chicken can cause physical discomfort.
10. Green Pepper Beef Liver (Beef Liver, Vitamin C-rich foods): Because vitamin C in fruits and vegetables has strong reducing properties, it can be easily oxidized by copper ions in beef liver, thus losing its physiological activity.
11. Braised Beef Brisket with Radish (Carrot, White Radish): Carrots contain ascorbic acid enzymes, which can destroy the vitamin C in white radish, greatly reducing the nutritional value of both radishes.
12. White Radish and Wood Ear Mushroom Soup (White Radish, Wood Ear Mushroom): White radish is neutral and slightly cool in nature, and has effects such as clearing heat and detoxifying, strengthening the stomach and aiding digestion, resolving phlegm and stopping cough, regulating qi and promoting bowel movements, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, and tonifying the middle and calming the organs. It should be noted that eating radish with wood ear mushrooms may cause dermatitis.
13. Stuffed River Snails with Pork (Pork, River Snails): Pork is sour, cold, greasy, and river snails are very cold. Both belong to cool-natured foods and can easily damage the stomach and intestines, so they should not be eaten together.
14. Braised Pomfret with Tomatoes (Tomato, Fish): The vitamin C in tomatoes can inhibit the release of copper elements from the fish.