Chicken, duck eggs, crucian carp, tofu, radish... seemingly ordinary, but if improperly matched and consumed long-term, they can be health killers. Many mothers must pay attention when nourishing their children or cooking daily meals to prevent the harm caused by improper food pairings.
1. Scallion and Mushroom Chicken: Sesame can nourish the liver and kidneys, nourish blood and promote fluid production, moisten the intestines to relieve constipation, and blacken hair. However, when eaten with chicken, it can cause poisoning. Severe cases can be fatal. This can be treated by drinking a decoction of licorice.
2. Spicy Green Beans: Garlic and scallions are both foods that strongly irritate the intestines. Eating them together can easily lead to symptoms like abdominal pain and diarrhea.
3. Scallion and Century Egg Tofu Salad: Tofu is rich in nutrients like protein and calcium, 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 scallion tofu salad or stir-fried tofu with scallions are consumed long-term, it can lead to calcium deficiency in the body, easily causing conditions like calcium deficiency, leg cramps, osteomalacia, and fractures. Some people use scallions as a 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 to prevent the formation of calcium oxalate.
4. Banana Yogurt: Yogurt can lower cholesterol. Drinking yogurt on an empty stomach can make the stomach too acidic, 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 Hairtail Porridge: Red jujube is neutral in nature and can nourish the spleen and stomach, and replenish qi and blood. Eating it with fish and scallions can lead to indigestion.
6. Spiced Tea Eggs: Strong tea contains a significant amount of tannic acid. Tannic acid can turn the protein in food into indigestible coagulated substances, affecting the human body's absorption and utilization of protein.
7. Braised Pig Trotters with Soybeans: The aldehydic acid residues in the dietary fiber of soybeans can chelate with the minerals in pig trotters, interfering with or reducing the human body's absorption of these elements.