These 15 'homestyle dishes' are actually health hazards.

Ordinary food combinations can have extraordinary effects. Properly paired ingredients can nourish the body, while improper pairings can harm your health. The following food combinations should be avoided, so housewives, take note!

Chicken, duck eggs, crucian carp, tofu, radish... and even fruit, all seem ordinary, but if paired incorrectly and consumed over the long term, they can become silent killers of health. Many housewives must pay close attention when cooking daily meals to prevent the harm caused by improper food pairings.

1. Scallion and Sesame Chicken (Chicken + Sesame)

Sesame can nourish the liver and kidneys, nourish blood to produce fluids, moisten the intestines to promote bowel movements, and darken hair. However, when consumed with chicken, it can lead to poisoning. Severe poisoning can be fatal. It can be treated by drinking a decoction of licorice root in water.

2. Spicy String Beans (Garlic + Scallion)

Both garlic and scallions are strongly stimulating to the intestines. When eaten together, they can easily cause symptoms like abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Dry-fried String Beans

3. Small Scallion and Century Egg Tofu Salad (Tofu + Small 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 reacts with the oxalic acid in the scallions to form a white precipitate, calcium oxalate, which destroys the calcium in the tofu. Calcium oxalate is difficult for the human body to absorb. If dishes like small scallion mixed with tofu or stir-fried scallion tofu are consumed over a long period, it can lead to calcium deficiency in the body, making one prone to conditions like calcium deficiency, leg cramps, chondromalacia, and fractures. Some people use scallions for seasoning when cooking tofu, which is also not advisable. For some vegetables containing oxalic acid, such as spinach, fresh bamboo shoots, and bitter gourd, they should be blanched in boiling water first to remove most of the oxalic acid before cooking, which can prevent the formation of calcium oxalate.

4. Banana Yogurt (Banana + Yogurt)

Yogurt can lower cholesterol. Drinking yogurt on an empty stomach can be too acidic for the stomach, making it difficult for lactic acid bacteria to survive in gastric juice, thus reducing the health benefits of yogurt. Eating it with bananas is also not beneficial to your health.

5. Red Jujube and Ribbonfish Congee (Red Jujube + Fish + Scallion)

Red jujube is neutral in nature and can nourish the spleen and stomach, and replenish qi and blood. When eaten with fish and scallions, it can lead to indigestion.

Red Jujube and Lotus Seed Eight Treasure Congee

6. Spiced Tea Eggs (Tea + Eggs)

Strong tea contains a significant amount of tannic acid. Tannic acid can turn the protein in food into an indigestible, coagulated substance, affecting the human 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. Stir-fried Green Peppers with 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.

Tomato and Beef Brisket Stew

9. Braised Beef Brisket with 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.

White Radish and Wood Ear Mushroom Soup

10. Red and White Radish with Wood Ear Mushroom Soup (White Radish + Wood Ear Mushroom)

White radish is neutral and slightly cool in nature, with effects such as clearing heat and detoxifying, strengthening the stomach to aid digestion, resolving phlegm and stopping cough, promoting qi to relieve constipation, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, and tonifying the middle jiao to calm the organs. It should be noted that eating radish with wood ear mushrooms may cause dermatitis.

Coix Seed and Wood Ear Mushroom Sweet Soup

11. Stuffed River Snails (Pork + River Snails)

Pork is sour, cold, greasy, and heavy. River snails are very cooling. Both belong to the category of "cooling" foods and can easily harm the stomach and intestines, so they should not be eaten together.

12. Tomato and Pomfret Stew (Tomato + 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, 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, when eaten with winter melon, it can lead to dehydration.

Braised Crucian Carp

15. Red and Yellow Salad (Cucumber + Tomato)

Tomatoes contain a large amount of vitamin C, which can enhance the body's resistance, prevent scurvy, and has anti-infective properties. Cucumbers contain vitamin C decomposing enzymes, and when eaten together, they can destroy the vitamin C in the tomatoes.