Sesame can nourish the liver and kidneys, nourish blood and produce fluids, moisten the intestines to relieve constipation, and blacken hair. However, consuming it with chicken can lead to poisoning, and severe cases can be fatal. It can be treated by drinking a decoction of licorice root.
2. Spicy Green Beans (Garlic + Scallion):
Both garlic and scallions are foods that strongly irritate the intestines. Consuming them together can easily lead to symptoms like abdominal pain and diarrhea.
3. Scallion and Century Egg Tofu (Tofu + Scallion):
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4. Banana Yogurt (Banana + Yogurt):
Yogurt can lower cholesterol. Drinking yogurt on an empty stomach is not ideal because the high acidity of the stomach environment 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 Ribbon Fish Congee (Red Jujube + Fish + Scallion):
Red jujube is neutral in nature and can nourish the spleen and stomach, and replenish qi and blood. However, consuming it with fish and scallions can lead to indigestion.
6. Spiced Tea Eggs (Tea + Eggs):
Strong tea contains a significant amount of tannic acid, which can turn the protein in food into indigestible coagulated substances, 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 chelate 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 the 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 Brisket with Radish (Carrot + White Radish):
Carrots contain ascorbic acid oxidase, which can destroy the vitamin C in white radishes, significantly reducing the nutritional value of both vegetables.
10. White Radish and Wood Ear Mushroom Soup (White Radish + Wood Ear Mushroom):
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, promoting qi circulation and bowel movements, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, and tonifying the middle burner to calm the organs. It should be noted that consuming radish with wood ear mushrooms may cause dermatitis.
11. River Snails Stuffed with Pork (Pork + River Snails):
Pork is sour, cold, greasy, and heavy. River snails are very cold. Both belong to cooling foods and can easily harm the stomach and intestines, so they should not be eaten together.
12. Braised Ribbon Fish 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, for people with a deficient spleen and stomach who often have diarrhea, it can have a very good therapeutic effect. However, eating it with chicken can cause physical discomfort.
14. Red Bean and Winter Melon with Crucian Carp Soup (Crucian Carp + Winter Melon):
Crucian carp is warm in nature and sweet in flavor, harmonizing the stomach, tonifying deficiency, reducing swelling and detoxifying, promoting urination and lactation. However, eating it with winter melon can cause dehydration.
15. Red and Yellow Salad (Cucumber + Tomatoes):
Tomatoes contain a large amount of vitamin C, which can enhance the body's resistance, prevent scurvy, and resist infection. Cucumbers contain vitamin C decomposing enzyme, which can destroy the vitamin C when eaten together.
16. Spicy and Sour Cucumber with Cold Noodles (Cucumber + Chili):
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 are combined, they can form magnesium oxalate and calcium oxalate, which cannot be absorbed by the body.