There are some dishes we often make in our daily lives that are actually incorrect pairings. Eating them frequently can cause certain harm to our health, and in some cases, can even lead to "poisoning"—resulting in various physical discomforts. Let's take a look at some common dishes that are often mistakenly paired.
1. Scallion and Mushroom Chicken (Chicken + Sesame)
Sesame can nourish the liver and kidneys, nourish blood and produce fluids, moisten the intestines to promote bowel movements, and blacken hair. However, when consumed with chicken, it can cause poisoning. Severe poisoning can even lead to death. This can be treated by drinking a decoction of licorice in water.
2. Spicy Green Beans (Garlic + Scallion)
Both garlic and scallions are foods that strongly stimulate the intestines. Consuming them together can easily lead to symptoms like abdominal pain and diarrhea.
3. Scallion and Century Egg Tofu Salad (Tofu + Scallion)
Scallions contain oxalic acid, and tofu has calcium. When mixed together, they form calcium oxalate, which is harmful to the human body. This is something everyone should know by now!
4. Banana Yogurt (Banana + Yogurt)
Sour yogurt can lower cholesterol. Drinking yogurt on an empty stomach can be problematic because the high acidity in the stomach makes it difficult for lactic acid bacteria to survive, reducing the health benefits of the yogurt. Eating it with bananas is also not beneficial to your health!
5. Red Jujube and Hairtail Congee (Red Jujube + Fish + Scallion)
Red jujube is neutral in nature and can nourish the spleen and stomach, and replenish qi and blood. However, when eaten with fish and scallions, it can cause indigestion.
6. Spiced Tea Eggs (Tea + Eggs)
Strong tea contains a significant amount of tannic acid. Tannic acid can turn the protein in food into a coagulated substance that is difficult to digest, affecting the body's absorption and utilization of protein.
7. 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 body's absorption of these elements.
8. Green Pepper and 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, thereby losing its physiological activity.
9. Braised Beef and Radish (Carrot + White Radish)
Carrots contain ascorbic acid oxidase, which can destroy the vitamin C in white radish, greatly reducing the nutritional value of both vegetables.
10. White Radish and Black Fungus Soup (White Radish + Black Fungus)
White radish is neutral and slightly cool, with effects such as clearing heat and detoxifying, strengthening the stomach to aid 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 and black fungus together may cause dermatitis.
11. River Snail Stuffed with Pork (Pork + River Snail)
Pork is sour, cold, greasy, and heavy, while river snails are very cold. Both are considered cooling foods and can easily harm the digestive system, so they should not be eaten together.
12. Braised Pomfret with Tomatoes (Tomatoes + Fish)
The vitamin C in tomatoes can inhibit the release of copper elements from the fish.
13. 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 experience a very good therapeutic effect from eating it. However, when eaten with chicken, it can cause physical discomfort.
14. Red Bean, Winter Melon, and Crucian Carp Soup (Crucian Carp + Winter Melon)
Crucian carp is warm in nature and sweet in taste, harmonizing the stomach, tonifying deficiency, reducing swelling and detoxifying, promoting urination and lactation. However, if eaten with winter melon, it can lead to dehydration.
15. Red and Yellow Salad (Cucumber + Tomatoes)
Tomatoes are rich in vitamin C, which can enhance the body's resistance, prevent scurvy, and resist infections. However, cucumbers contain vitamin C decomposing enzyme, and when eaten together, it can destroy the vitamin C in the tomatoes.
16. Spicy and Sour Cucumber with Cold Noodles (Cucumber + Chili Pepper)
Cucumbers contain vitamin C decomposing enzyme, which can destroy the vitamin C in chili peppers, reducing their nutritional value.
17. Spinach and Tofu Soup (Spinach + Tofu)
Tofu contains magnesium chloride and calcium sulfate, while spinach contains oxalic acid. When these two foods come into contact, they can form magnesium oxalate and calcium oxalate, which cannot be absorbed by the human body.